oath – English noun declension

English noun forms of oath

Noun: oath
Singularoath
Pluraloaths

Sample Sentences

  • take an oath
  • swear an oath
  • break one's oath
  • But all of us took an oath to do our duty when we joined the Space Force, and I fully expect everyone to willingly keep their word. But you took no oath, and have no obligation. [2007, George Simmons Roth, Battle in Outer Space, →ISBN:]
  • There are […] brought all the way from Bougainville to present their birth certificates and testify in this courtroom, under oath, as to their given names. [2011, Mark Leyne, The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel:]
  • "I want to release you from your oath," he said, a slight flutter in his voice. [2002, David B. Coe, Rules of Ascension, Tom Doherty Associates, page 127:]
  • After taking the oath of office, she became the country's forty-third premier.
  • The generals swore an oath of loyalty to the country.
  • Wrex: [sigh] Before I left, I made an oath to my father's father.
  • Wrex: I swore to recover my family's battle armor. It was taken from him after the uprising. [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:]
  • The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section[…] [1981, Bernard Asbell, The Senate Nobody Knows:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English ooth, oth, ath, from Old English āþ (“oath”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ (“oath”), from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”).
2. Cognate with Scots aith, athe (“oath”), North Frisian ith, iss (“oath”), Saterland Frisian Eed (“oath”), West Frisian eed (“oath”), Dutch eed (“oath”), German Eid (“oath”), Swedish ed (“oath”), Icelandic eið (“oath”), Latin ūtor (“make use of, employ, avail”, verb), Old Irish óeth (“oath”). See: Dutch Nouns 'eed', German Nouns 'Eid', Swedish Nouns 'ed', Latin Nouns 'ūtor'.

Verbs referencing "oath"

German Nouns Eid, Old Norse Nouns eiðr, Dutch Nouns eed.