kith
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English kith (“kinsmen, relations”),[1] from Old English cȳþþ, cȳþþu (“kinship, kinsfolk, relations”), from Proto-Germanic *kunþiþō (“knowledge, acquaintance”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Cognate with Old High German kundida (“kith”), kundī (“knowledge”), Gothic 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌹 (kunþi, “knowledge”). More at couth, -th.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kith (usually uncountable, plural kiths)
- (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[2], 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.
- (Northern England, Scotland, rustic, countable) An acquaintance or a friend.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]friends and acquaintances
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Arika Okrent (2019 July 5) “12 Old Words That Survived by Getting Fossilized in Idioms”, in Mental Floss[1], Pocket, retrieved 2021-10-08
Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Variant of kic (“I bite”).
Noun
[edit]kith m
Related terms
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English cȳþþ, cȳþþu, from Proto-Germanic *kunþiþō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kith (plural kithes)
- One's motherland or birthplace; the region or territory where one belongs
- One's kin, ethnicity, or lineage; the people one belongs to.
- One's descendant; a person from one's line.
- Relation; connection by blood, heritage.
- (rare) learning, facts
- (rare) tradition, good manners.
- (rare) The state of knowing someone.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “kitthe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-22.
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