different between kithe vs sithe

English

Alternative forms

• cythe, kyithe, kyith, keyth, kaith, kayth, caith, cuith

Etymology

From Middle English kiþen, küthen, kithen, from Old English c?þan, from Proto-West Germanic *kunþijan, from Proto-Germanic *kunþijan? (“to make known”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??ð/

Verb

kithe (third-person singular simple present kithes, present participle kithing, simple past and past participle kithed)

1. (archaic, except in Scots) To make known; to reveal.
   • 1604-30, Alexander Craig?

     These lines are sent by me, To kithe my love to thee.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• A New English Dictionary

Anagrams

• Keith

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English kiþen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??ð/

Verb

kithe

1. To make known; to reveal.

Noun

kithe

1. Appearance, aspect
2. A living being in its earliest manifestations, e.g. a young child.

English

Etymology 1

The spelling with /sc-/ was influenced by unrelated Latin word scissor (“cutter”), and scindere (“to split”).

Noun

sithe (plural sithes)

1. Obsolete form of scythe.
   • 1669, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Samuel Simmons, Book X:

     […] and, whatever thing the sithe of time mows down, devour unspared.

Verb

sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)

1. Obsolete form of scythe.

Etymology 2

Noun

sithe (plural sithes)

1. Alternative spelling of sith

Verb

sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)

1. (obsolete) To journey, travel, wayfare.

Etymology 3

Regional pronunciation of sigh.

Verb

sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)

1. (dialect, dated) To sigh.
   • c1475, The Macro Plays, Mankind?

     I may both sithe and sob; this is a piteous remembrance

Noun

sithe (plural sithes)

1. (obsolete) A sigh.

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References

• “s??then, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 4

Clipping of sithen.

Conjunction

sithe

1. Alternative spelling of sith (“since”)

Anagrams

• Heist, Heits, Hites, Sethi, Thiès, heist, ithes, seith, shite