etymology - What is the origin of the -th suffix? What is the . . . 2 th as suffix changes the verb or adjective to a noun - no dispute there What does making it a noun add to the meaning? It often seems to mean a state of: eg Strength - a state of strong Health as a state of healing, Width as a state of wide, etc
How to pronounce ‘TH’ when it comes right after [s] sound? The 'th' sound following 's' is made with the identical tongue teeth lips position as 'th' in the word 'thing' except it's voiced You should feel a slight tingling sensation on the tongue
Why was the th combination chosen for the th sound? Given that the two "th" sounds don't actually sound like a combination of "t" and "h" why was that particular combination selected or become adopted by the majority ?
Is there any rule for differentiating between the endings th and ht? The ones ending in th all have the [θ] sound, which is formed by putting the tip of the tongue between the front teeth and blowing The ones ending in ht all have the [t] sound (or some allophonic variant thereof)
Distinguishing f–t–θ in th-fronting and th-stopping dialects Wikipedia notes that th -stopping dialects generally distinguish between the dental stop of thanks [t̪æŋks] and the alveolar stop of tanks [tæŋks], but they lose the t–θ opposition in some cases like tree three, and the d–ð opposition is even weaker
Why do I sometimes pronounce my ths as fs and vs? It is called th-fronting and is not uncommon in certain groups I live in Rotherhithe in SE London and centuries ago people like Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn and Jonathan Swift seemed to have pronounced the second th with an f so much so that they wrote it as Redriffe
What is the ‘‑ht vs ‑th’ grammar or spelling rule? [duplicate] Some words end with ‑th while others end with ‑ht For example: Height, weight, thought, drought, sleight, sight all end with ‑ht Length, width, breadth, depth, wealth, girth, dearth all end with ‑th Is there any rule I can use so I can know whether I should put ‑th or ‑ht at the end of a given word?