different between kythe vs mythe

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

Noun

mythe (plural mythes)

1. Obsolete form of myth.
   • 1846-1856', George Grote, History of Greece

     But another class of mythes, more popular and more captivating, grew up under the hands of the poets […]

Anagrams

• methy, thyme

Dutch

Etymology

Latin mythos, from Ancient Greek ????? (mûthos)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: my?the

Noun

mythe f or m (plural mythen or mythes, diminutive mythetje n)

1. myth

Related terms

• mythologie

French

Etymology

Latin mythos, from Ancient Greek ????? (mûthos)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mit/

Noun

mythe m (plural mythes)

1. myth (story)

Further reading

• “mythe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Noun

m?the

1. vocative singular of m?thos