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kith.

Friends and acquaintances.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/kɪθ/
  1. Friends and acquaintances.

    archaic · obsolete · uncountable · usually
  2. An acquaintance or a friend.

    Northern-England · Scotland · countable · usually
  3. A person who is not related to a child but has social connections to the child's family, especially when considered as a caregiver or possible caregiver for the child.

    countable · uncountable · usually
Where this word comes from

From Middle English kitthe (“kinsmen, relations”), from Old English cȳþþ, cȳþþu (“kinship, kinsfolk, relations”), from Proto-Germanic *kunþiþō (“knowledge, acquaintance”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Cognate with Old High German kundida (“kith”), kundī (“knowledge”), Gothic 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌹 (kunþi, “knowledge”). More at couth, -th.

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