airth

airth (uncountable)

1. (chiefly Scotland, Mid-Ulster) Alternative spelling of earth
   • 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes‎^[1]:

     I've hearn some folks pretend that it comes from the bowels of the airth, but it don't; its^[sic] a thing of the air, and I've a notion it travels a mighty long way from its startin' place afore it reaches us. "

   • 1889, Annie Trumbull Slosson, Fishin' Jimmy‎^[2]:

     "As I was tellin' ye," he said, "I allers loved fishin' an' knowed 't was the best thing in the hull airth.

   • 1901, Henry van Dyke, The Ruling Passion‎^[3]:

     I guess there ain't nothin' on airth he loves better 'n that holler piece o' wood, and the toons that's inside o' it.

• Harti, Thira, Thíra, tahri, thair

airth (plural airths)

1. Alternative form of airt (“art”)

• “airth, n.¹”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

airth (plural airths)

1. Alternative form of airt (“direction”)

airth (third-person singular simple present airths, present participle airthin, simple past airthit, past participle airthit)

1. Alternative form of airt (“to direct”)

• “airth, n.2 & v. tr.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

airth

1. earth