different between kytle vs kythe

English

Etymology

From Old English (pre-1500) kirtle - a man's short coat or tunic. Possibly related to Yiddish ????? (kitl) via Old high German.

Noun

kytle (plural kytles)

1. (dialect) A light jacket or short coat.

Usage notes

• The word is quoted in Craven Dialect (1828), and is still in use throughout parts of the North Pennines five hundred years after it went out of use (with this meaning) in standard English.

Anagrams

• Kelty, ketyl

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