Noun: eight
| Singular | eight |
| Plural | eights |
Sample Sentences
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About eight on the Saturday morning, she purchases a large sheath-knife in the Palais Royal [...] [1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter I, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book IV (Terror):]
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Sharp at eight we were waiting on the wharf where the Messagerie boats lie, and wondering what the deuce was going to happen. [1905, Guy Newell Boothby, “The Treasure of Sacramento Nick”, in A Crime of the Under-Seas, London: Ward Lock & Co Limited, →OCLC, →OL:]
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Miranda showed him in at a quarter to eight, accompanied by a pretty young woman she introduced as Erin d'Angelo. [1997 February 1 [1981 April 12], John Dunning, Deadline, New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 263:]
Nouns inflected like eight
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *oḱtṓw
3. Etymology tree
4. Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw
5. Proto-Germanic *ahtōu
6. Proto-West Germanic *ahtō
7. Old English eahta
8. Middle English eighte
9. English eight
10. From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
11. Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”), among others. False cognate of Tamil எட்டு (eṭṭu), Malayalam എട്ട് (eṭṭŭ). See: Middle English Nouns '
eighte', Old English Nouns '
eahta', Dutch Nouns '
acht', German Nouns '
acht', Swedish Nouns '
åtta', Icelandic Nouns '
átta', Irish Nouns '
ocht'.