different between kythe vs kithe

English

Etymology

Common Germanic: Old English cýðan (Middle English cüþen, kyþen, kiþen, keþen). Old Saxon kûðian.

Verb

kythe (third-person singular simple present kythes, present participle kything, simple past and past participle kythed)

1. To make known in words; to announce, proclaim, declare, tell.
   • 725. Corpus Glossary (1150). Intimandum to cyðenne.
   • 1000. West Saxon Gospels (John, xvii. 26). Ic him cyðde ðinne naman & gyt wylle cyþan.
2. To make known by action, appearance; to manifest, show, prove, demonstrate, indicate.
   • 1175. Lambeth Manuscript (99). Elches monnes weorc cuðað [printed cuðan] hwilc gast hine wissað.
   • 1385. Geoffrey Chaucer, Legend Good Women (Prologue, 492). Sche kytheth what she is.
3. Alternative form of kithe

Related terms

• kything

Middle English

Noun

kythe

1. Alternative form of kith

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.