Walketh

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Acts of moving on foot in the present tense, used in old or formal English
2. Performs the action of walking with the subject being he, she, or it in archaic usage
3. Describes someone who progresses by stepping, employing a style from earlier English

Etymology: "Walketh" is the archaic third-person singular form of "walk," used in the sense of someone who progresses by stepping, as in older English prose and Bible translations. The verb "walk" goes back to Old English "wealcan," which meant to move around, to roll, or to revolve, so the original idea was turning and tumbling rather than putting one foot in front of the other. The earlier sense survives in the wider family. Middle English "walken" could mean to roll, toss, or turn as well as to walk, and related German, Dutch and Scandinavian words still refer to fulling cloth, which involved beating and rolling wet fabric to thicken it. Latin "valgus," meaning bow-legged or bent outward, belongs to the same family, as does the English "waulk," a doublet of "walk" that kept the cloth-working meaning.

Synonyms: walks, strolls, ambles, marches, trudges

Antonyms: runs, sprints, jogs, flees, dashes