"cyþan" meaning in Old English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈkyː.θɑn/, [ˈkyː.ðɑn]
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *kunþijan (“to make known”). Etymology templates: {{dercat|ang|gem-pro|inh=1}}, {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*kunþijan|t=to make known}} Proto-West Germanic *kunþijan (“to make known”) Head templates: {{ang-verb|cȳþan}} cȳþan Inflection templates: {{ang-conj|cȳþan<w1>}} Forms: cȳþan [canonical], weak [table-tags], cȳþan [infinitive], cȳþenne [infinitive], cȳþe [first-person, present, singular], cȳþde [first-person, past, singular], cȳþest [present, second-person, singular], cȳst [present, second-person, singular], cȳþdest [past, second-person, singular], cȳþeþ [present, singular, third-person], cȳþþ [present, singular, third-person], cȳþ [present, singular, third-person], cȳþde [past, singular, third-person], cȳþaþ [plural, present], cȳþdon [past, plural], cȳþe [present, singular], cȳþde [past, singular], cȳþen [plural, present], cȳþden [past, plural], cȳþ [imperative, past, present, singular], cȳþaþ [imperative, past, plural, present], cȳþende [imperative, present], cȳþed [imperative, past], ġecȳþed [imperative, past]
  1. to make known: tell, inform, announce, reveal, let know
    Sense id: en-cyþan-ang-verb-lSCIXJZH
  2. to declare
    Sense id: en-cyþan-ang-verb-P6lwKFEL Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 27 67 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 34 52 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 17 71 12
  3. to state
    Sense id: en-cyþan-ang-verb-9IO0OjAW
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cennan Derived forms: ācȳþan, forcȳþan, ġecȳþan, ofcȳþan, ofercȳþan
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "forcȳþan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "ġecȳþan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "ofcȳþan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "ofercȳþan"
    }
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          "name": "desc"
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    },
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  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *kunþijan (“to make known”).",
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      "tags": [
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      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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      "source": "conjugation",
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    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþenne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "cȳþe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "cȳþde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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      "form": "cȳþest",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "cȳþdest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "form": "cȳþeþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþdon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþ",
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      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "cȳþende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġecȳþed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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    }
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  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cȳþan<w1>"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "725. Corpus Glossary (1150). Intimandum to cȳðenne."
        },
        {
          "english": "Go instantly, and inquire concerning the child, and when ye find it, let me know, that I may worship him.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Nativity of the Innocents\"\nFarað ardlice, and befrīnað be ðam cilde, and þonne ġē hit ġemētað, cȳðað mē, þæt ic māge mē tō him ġebiddan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1000. West Saxon Gospels (John, xvii. 26). Ic him cyðde ðinne naman & gyt wylle cyþan."
        }
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        "to make known: tell, inform, announce, reveal, let know"
      ],
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          "make known",
          "make known"
        ],
        [
          "tell",
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        [
          "inform",
          "inform"
        ],
        [
          "announce",
          "announce"
        ],
        [
          "reveal",
          "reveal"
        ],
        [
          "let know",
          "let know"
        ]
      ]
    },
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "_dis": "34 52 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 71 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "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.\"",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"Preface\"\nEft cwæð se Ælmihtiga to þam witegan Isaiam, \"Clypa and ne geswic ðu, ahefe þine stemne swā swā byme, and cȳð minum folce heora leahtras, and Iacobes hirede heora synna.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "to declare"
      ],
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        [
          "declare",
          "declare"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
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        {
          "english": "And that there may be the less doubt whether this be true, I will state the sources of my narrative.",
          "text": "c. 9-10th century, Bede, \"Preface\"\n7 þæt ðȳ læs twēoġe hwæðer þis sōð sȳ, ic cȳðe hwanan mē þās spell cōman.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "to state"
      ],
      "id": "en-cyþan-ang-verb-9IO0OjAW",
      "links": [
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          "state",
          "state"
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      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkyː.θɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkyː.ðɑn]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "cennan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cyþan"
}
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    "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old English lemmas",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Old English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "ācȳþan"
    },
    {
      "word": "forcȳþan"
    },
    {
      "word": "ġecȳþan"
    },
    {
      "word": "ofcȳþan"
    },
    {
      "word": "ofercȳþan"
    }
  ],
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          "name": "desc"
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  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *kunþijan (“to make known”).",
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      "tags": [
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      "form": "weak",
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      "form": "cȳþan",
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        "infinitive"
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    {
      "form": "cȳþenne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "present",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "cȳþde",
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      "tags": [
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        "past",
        "singular"
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      "form": "cȳþest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "cȳst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "cȳþdest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "cȳþeþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþdon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþ",
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        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
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        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþende",
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      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cȳþed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġecȳþed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
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  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "725. Corpus Glossary (1150). Intimandum to cȳðenne."
        },
        {
          "english": "Go instantly, and inquire concerning the child, and when ye find it, let me know, that I may worship him.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Nativity of the Innocents\"\nFarað ardlice, and befrīnað be ðam cilde, and þonne ġē hit ġemētað, cȳðað mē, þæt ic māge mē tō him ġebiddan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1000. West Saxon Gospels (John, xvii. 26). Ic him cyðde ðinne naman & gyt wylle cyþan."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make known: tell, inform, announce, reveal, let know"
      ],
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          "make known",
          "make known"
        ],
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          "tell",
          "tell"
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        [
          "inform",
          "inform"
        ],
        [
          "announce",
          "announce"
        ],
        [
          "reveal",
          "reveal"
        ],
        [
          "let know",
          "let know"
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      "categories": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "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.\"",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"Preface\"\nEft cwæð se Ælmihtiga to þam witegan Isaiam, \"Clypa and ne geswic ðu, ahefe þine stemne swā swā byme, and cȳð minum folce heora leahtras, and Iacobes hirede heora synna.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to declare"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "declare",
          "declare"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "And that there may be the less doubt whether this be true, I will state the sources of my narrative.",
          "text": "c. 9-10th century, Bede, \"Preface\"\n7 þæt ðȳ læs twēoġe hwæðer þis sōð sȳ, ic cȳðe hwanan mē þās spell cōman.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to state"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkyː.θɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkyː.ðɑn]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cennan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cyþan"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Old English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (d6bf104 and a5af179). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.