erthe

See also: erþe

Middle English

erthe

Earth; the world
- 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, page 40:
  And I seide, “Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe. And therwith he was named, as I gesse worthili, a passing reuli man and an innocent in al his lyuynge […] .”
  And I said, “Sir, in his time, Mr. John Wycliffe was held by very many men to be the greatest clergyman that they knew living upon the Earth. And therewith he was deemed, I guess deservingly, an excellent, regular man who was innocent in all his doing […] .”
The Earth's people or inhabitants
country, realm
land, terrain
ground, earth, dirt, soil, clay
earth (one of the alchemical elements)
- c. 1300, “Hereþ now of þe trinite dere / And of þe makyng of þıs woꝛld here”, in Curſoꝛ Mundı (Trinity College MS. R. 3.8), Staffordshire, published c. 1400, folio 3, recto, column 1; republished at Cambridge: Trinity College, 23 June 2017:
  Þe elementıs þ^t al þing byndes / ﬀoure þ͛ ben as clerkes fyndes / þe loweſt hıt ıs watır and erþe / þe þrıdde ıs eyr ⁊ fuyr þe ferþe
  The elements that compose everything / there are four as scholars find: / the lowest are water and earth, / the third is air, and the fourth is fire.

English: earth; Earth
Middle Scots: erd, erde, ȝerd, ȝeird (influenced by erd)
- Scots: erd, yerd, yird, yirth; Yird
Yola: erth, eart, eard, eord, eorth

“ē̆rthe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 March 2018.

From Old English yrþ; equivalent to eren (“to plough”) +‎ -the (abstract nominal suffix). Compare erd (“home”).

erthe (uncountable) (rare)

erthe f

North Frisian: eerd (Föhr-Amrum), eerde, iarde (Halligen), iir (Heligoland), jard (Mooring), Iart, Öört (Sylt), örd (Wiedingharde)
Saterland Frisian: Äide, Idde, Äid
West Frisian: ierde