/iːvz/, /ivz/
OriginPIE word
*upér
From Middle English eves (“projecting lower edge of a roof”) [and other forms], from Old English efes, yfes, *ofes (“edge of a roof”), from Proto-West Germanic *ubisu (“hall”), from Proto-Germanic *ubiswō (compare Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌰 (ubizwa), Old High German obasa (“hall; porch; roof”)), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“above; over”) (whence over).
- plural, plural-onlyThe underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building.
“Him that you term'd Sir, the good old Lord Gonzallo, / His teares runs downe his beard like winters drops / From eaues of reeds: […]”
“Thus night oft ſee me in thy pale career, / Till civil-ſuited morn appeer, / […] / Or uſher'd with a ſhower ſtill, / When the guſt hath blown his fill, / Ending on the ruſsling Leaves, / With minute d”
“By my window bowered round with leaves, / And down my cheeks the quick tears ran / Like twinkling rain-drops from the eaves, / When warm spring showers are passing o'er: […]”
- broadly, plural, plural-onlySomething that extends over or projects beyond.
“But after many strains and heaves / He got up to the Saddle eaves.”
“The mystic glory swims away; / From off my bed the moonlight dies; / And closing eaves of wearied eyes / I sleep till dusk is dipt in gray: […]”
- form-of, pluralplural of eave
- A surname.
- A hamlet in Woodplumpton parish, city of Preston district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4937).
Formseave(alternative)
Source: Wiktionary