tooketh
tooketh is the alternative third-person singular past of take.
Meaning of take
Verb
take (third-person singular simple present takes, present participle taking, simple past took, past participle taken or (archaic or Scotland) tane)
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.
- Synonyms:
- confiscate, seize
- To seize or capture.
- take the guards prisoner
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- took ten catfish in one afternoon
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- Billy took her pencil.
- To exact.
- take a toll
Origin of tooketh
Pseudo-loan from Middle English, derived from took + -eth, an incorrect application of the archaic marker of the third-person singular present tense (-eth) to the past tense form of the verb to take.
Questions about tooketh
- What is tooketh the alternative third-person singular past of?
- Tooketh is the alternative third-person singular past of take.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tooketh (page history and authors); take (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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