cyþan – Old English verb conjugation

Old English verb forms of cyþan

Infinitive

cȳþan
cȳþenne

Participles

Presentcȳþende
Past(ġe)cȳþed

Indicative

Present

1st sing.cȳþe
2nd sing.cȳþest; cȳst
3rd sing.cȳþeþ; cȳþþ; cȳþ
1st plur.cȳþaþ
2nd plur.cȳþaþ
3rd plur.cȳþaþ

Past

1st sing.cȳþde
2nd sing.cȳþdest
3rd sing.cȳþde
1st plur.cȳþdon
2nd plur.cȳþdon
3rd plur.cȳþdon

Subjunctive

Present

1st sing.cȳþe
2nd sing.cȳþe
3rd sing.cȳþe
1st plur.cȳþen
2nd plur.cȳþen
3rd plur.cȳþen

Past

1st sing.cȳþde
2nd sing.cȳþde
3rd sing.cȳþde
1st plur.cȳþden
2nd plur.cȳþden
3rd plur.cȳþden

Imperative

Singularcȳþ
Pluralcȳþaþ

Verbs conjugated like 'cyþan'

cyþan,

Verbs similar to 'cyþan'

cygan, cypan, yþan, bygan, calan, cegan, celan, cepan, cidan, cigan,

Etymology

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

Sample Sentences

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

Cognates

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