Old English · noun
cyte
Normalised ċȳte
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- weak n-stem
- IPA
- /ˈt͡ʃyː.te/
- Syllables
- ˈt͡ʃyː · te (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- hutcabinan anglo-saxon dictionaryjoseph bosworthoxford university presst. northcote toller
Meaning
-
hut, cabin
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
For earlier *ċīete, from Proto-West Germanic *kautijā, from Proto-Germanic *kautijǭ (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewd- (“to stretch, curve, vault”). Related to cote, though the exact details are unclear.
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