英和和英

語源

From 中期英語 kiþen, küthen, kithen, from 古期英語 cȳþan, from Proto-West Germanic *kunþijan, from Proto-Germanic *kunþijaną (“to make known”).

発音

• IPA: /kaɪð/
• 韻: -æɪð

動詞

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

1. (archaic in Scotland, obsolete elsewhere) To make known; to reveal.
   • 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:

     these lines are sent by me, to keep the law and kithe my love to thee.

     Spelling has been modernised.

   • 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:

     I'll kithe a constant Palinurus to thee, […]

アナグラム

• Keith