myth

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.3.3 See also 1.3.4 External links 2 Welsh 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Mutation

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[edit] Etymology

From Ancient Greek μῦθος (muthos), “‘word, humour, companion, speech, account, rumour, fable’”). English since 1830.

[edit] Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪθ

[edit] Noun

myth (plural myths)

1. A story of a great but unknown age which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient story of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin.
2. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable. This word originates from the Sanskrit word "Mithya"; with the same meaning [AR]
3. A commonly-held belief

[edit] Related terms

• mythic
• mythical
• mythicize
• mythological
• mythology
• mythopoeia
• mythopoeic
• mythopoesis
• mythos

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[edit] See also

• legend

[edit] External links

• myth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• myth in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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[edit] Welsh

[edit] Noun

myth

1. byth nasally mutated.

[edit] Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
byth	fyth	myth	unchanged