cyþan

From Proto-West Germanic *kunþijan (“to make known”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkyː.θɑn/, [ˈkyː.ðɑn]

cȳþan

1. to make known: tell, inform, announce, reveal, let know
   • 8th century, The Corpus Glossary, f. 36v (page 80, 2nd column, line 13)

     Intimandum to cȳðenne

     Intimandum [means] to make known

   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of the Innocents"

     Farað ardlīċe, and befrīnað be ðam ċilde, and þonne ġē hit ġemētað, cȳðað mē, þæt iċ māge mē tō him ġebiddan.

     Go instantly, and inquire concerning the child, and when ye find it, let me know, that I may worship him.

2. to declare
   • c. 990, West Saxon Gospels, John 17.26

     & ic him cȳðde ðinne naman & gyt wylle cȳþan þæt seo lufu ðe þū mē lufodest sy on him & iċ eom on him.

     And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

   • c. 992, Ælfric, "Preface"

     Eft cwæð se Ælmihtiga tō þam witegan Isaiam, "Clypa and ne ġeswic ðū, āhefe þine stemne swā swā bȳme, and cȳð mīnum folce heora leahtras, and Iacobes hīrēde heora synna."

     Again the Almighty spake to the prophet Isaiah, "Cry and cease thou not, raise thy voice as a trumpet, and declare to my people their crimes, and to the family of Jacob their sins."

3. to state
   • c. 9–10th centuries, Bede, "Preface"

     7 þæt ðȳ læs twēoġe hwæðer þis sōð sȳ, iċ cȳðe hwanan mē þās spell cōman.

     And that there may be the less doubt whether this be true, I will state the sources of my narrative.

• cennan

• ācȳþan
• forcȳþan
• ġecȳþan
• ofcȳþan
• ofercȳþan

• Middle English: kiþen, cüthen, kithen
  • English: kithe
  • Scots: kythe