kithe

Meanings

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

present singular third person kithes · participle present kithing · participle past kithed · past kithed · alternative cythe · alternative kyithe · alternative kyith · alternative keyth · alternative kaith · alternative kayth · alternative caith · alternative cuith

archaicobsolete elsewhereTo make known; to reveal.
I'll kithe a constant Palinurus to thee, […]
1609, Alexander Craig, The Poetical Recreations, Edinburgh: printed by Thomas Finlason, To His Majesty, in Name of his Noble Master, page 10; republished as The Poetical Works of Alexander Craig of Rose-Craig, 1604–1631; Now First Collected, volume III, Glasgow: printed by Robert Anderson for the Hunterian Club, 1873
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these lines are sent by me, to keep the law and kithe my love to thee.
1606, Alexander Craig, The Amorous, London: printed by William White, New Year's Gift to Idea, page 96; republished as The Poetical Works of Alexander Craig of Rose-Craig, 1604–1631; Now First Collected, volume II, Glasgow: printed by Robert Anderson for the Hunterian Club, 1873

Origin

Proto-Germanic*kunþijaną“to make known”
Proto-West Germanic*kunþijan
Old Englishcȳþan
Middle Englishkiþen
Englishkithe

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

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