kyte

See also: Kyte and kýtě

English

Noun

kyte (plural kytes)

1. Obsolete form of kite (“bird of prey”).
2. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of kite (“the stomach; the belly”)
   • 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 17:

     "You know my father's name?" / "It would be strange if I didnae," he returned, "for he was my born brother; and little as ye seem to like either me or my house, or my good parritch, I'm your born uncle, Davie, my man, and you my born nephew. So give us the letter, and sit down and fill your kyte."

Anagrams

• Tyke, tyek, tyke

Middle English

Alternative forms

• kete, kijt, kite, kute, kuyte

Etymology

Inherited from Old English cȳta, from Proto-West Germanic *kūtijō, from Proto-Germanic *kūts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːt(ə)/

Noun

kyte (plural kytes)

1. A kite (the bird of prey)

Descendants

• English: kite
• Scots: kyt, kyte
• → Welsh: cud

References

• “kīte, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-28.

Scots

Etymology

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Noun

kyte (plural kytes)

1. Belly, stomach
   • c. 1592, Rob Stene, Rob Stene's Dream‎^[1]:

     To cleith his bak, and fill his wame,
     Not sparing napir wyld, nor tame,
     Could not content his emptie kyte,
     Nor quenche his greidy appetyte.

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Derived terms

• kyte-clung
• up the kyte

West Flemish

Noun

kyte f (plural kytn)

1. calf, back of the leg below the knee