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発音

• IPA: /kɪθ/

• 韻: -ɪθ

名詞

kith (usually uncountable, plural kiths)

1. (archaic or obsolete, uncountable) Friends and acquaintances.
   • 1843, Edward Bulwer[-]Lytton, The Last of the Barons, London; New York, N.Y.: George Routledge and Sons […], →OCLC:

     Alack, would that Edward listened more to me and less to the queen’s kith! These Woodvilles!

   • 2000 August 3, Michael Kelly, “New Hope For Nice Guys”, in Orlando Sentinel‎, archived from the original on 18 June 2013:

     The demography-crossing thing that undergirds this election year, I think, is a strong, broad desire to punish Clinton and his kith with a denial of further power.

2. (Northern England, Scotland, rustic, countable) An acquaintance or a friend.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:friend or Thesaurus:acquaintance

派生語

• kith and kin
• kithfolk
• kithless

参考

• kin
• kinfolk

参照

語源

From 古期英語 cȳþþ, cȳþþu, from Proto-Germanic *kunþiþō.

発音

• IPA: /kiθ/, /ˈkið(ə)/, /kuθ/, /ˈkuð(ə)/

名詞

kith (plural kithes)

1. One's motherland or birthplace; the region or territory where one belongs
2. One's kin, ethnicity, or lineage; the people one belongs to.
3. One's descendant; a person from one's line.
4. Relation; connection by blood, heritage.
5. (rare) learning, facts
6. (rare) tradition, good manners.
7. (rare) The state of knowing someone.

派生した語

• English: kith
• Scots: kith, kyth, kythe

参照

• “kitthe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 22 May 2018.