cyþan

Meaning

1. to make known: tell, inform, announce, reveal, let know

   8th century, The Corpus Glossary, f. 36v (page 80, 2nd column, line 13)

   Intimandum [means] to make known

2. to declare

   & 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. 990, West Saxon Gospels, John 17.26

3. to state

   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.

   c. 9–10th centuries, Bede, "Preface"

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