Kythish lexicon

This is a list of Kythish words.

Entries are ordered thus: spelling /pronunciation/ part of speech definition — notes & etymology. Where irregular forms are listed, only the relevant inflections are given. Pronunciations are broadly transcribed, with canonical, phonemic values.

n. = noun; v. = verb; a. = adjective or adverb; p. = pronoun (personal, interrogative or demonstrative); c. = conjunction

a

• aaś /æːʃ/ n. The letter a. — Old English æsc, ash (see aś, below). Long vowel is common to all letter names.
• abawƿ /ˈæbæʊw/ n. Apple. — Either Old English æppel or Welsh afal. Influence of both is likely.
• ac /æk/ p. dial. I. — Variant of ec, q.v.
• aŋywƿ /ˈæŋəʊw/ n. Angel; saintly person. — Old English ængel, variant of engel, angel.
• asće /ˈæsxə/ n. Ash (dust formed from burning). — Old English æsce, ashes.
• aś /æʃ/ n. Ash tree; pole or pole-arm. — Old English æsc, ash.

á

• ánei /ˈaːnɛɪ/ a. Any. — Old English ǽnig, ǽneg, any.

c

• cawðan /ˈkæʊðæn/ v. To be famous. — Either Old English cúð, known, or Kythish cwynan, q.v. Not found in Middle Hacean.
• cawðár /ˈkæʊðar/ n. Celebrity.
• cwynan /ˈkʊənæn/ irreg. v. To know. — Old English cunnan

1st Person	Present	Past
Imperfective	cwyn	cawð
Perfective	cwynaf	cawðaf
2nd Person	Present	Past
Imperfective	cwyns	cawþs
Perfective	cwynas	cawðas
3rd Person	Present	Past
Imperfective	cwynþ	cawþ
Perfective	cwynaþ	cawðaþ

• cwynáiþ /ˈkʊənaɪθ/ n. Knowledge. — From the verb.
• cwyne /ˈkʊənə/ n. Something known; a piece of information. — From the verb.
• cwynyran /ˈkʊənəræn/ v. To be knowledgeable. — Frequentative of cwynan.
• cwynyrár /ˈkʊənərar/ n. A sage.

ð

• ða /ðæ/ p. Thou. — Old English ðú. A better form is ðaw, q.v.
• ðaw /ðæʊ/ p. dial. Thou. — A large number of rural dialects retain this instead of the standard ða, where the final -w was lost for unknown reasons.

e

• ec /ɛk/ p. I. — Old English ic. In metropolitan hácei and þýcod, ac is also commonly used.

f

• fjúþ /fjɑːθ/ n. Hate. — Nordaþ fjaþ, hate. Largely replaced native caes, q.v.
• fjúþan /ˈfjɑːθæn/ v. To hate. — As above. Largely replaced native caesan, hotan, q.v.
• fjúþár /ˈfjɑːθar/ n. Hater.
• fjúþon /ˈfjɑːθɔn/ n. Subject of hate.
• fjúþyrár /ˈfjɑːθərar/ n. Enemy, esp. political. — Political rhetoric, lit. "habitual hater". See also fjýþyrar.
• fjúþyron /ˈfjɑːθərɔn/ n. Victim, as of hate crimes. — Political rhetoric.
• fjúþyronan /fjɑˈθərɔnæn/ v. To victimise. — Not commonly used outside of political correctness camps, where it originates.
• fjýþyrar /ˈfjɜːθərar/ n. Humorously, any leftist. — Representation of the pronunciation of fjúþyrár by teofan schjómocar (who spoke with a caźowm accent, a southern dialect), a right-wing politician famed for accusing anyone he disliked of being an 'enemy of the Kythe'.

h

• hai /hæɪ/ p. He; she. — Old English hé, he. Kythish has lost the distinction between masculine and feminine that English has, and gained a much more pronounced distinction between animate and inanimate, see hee. Though largely obsolete, one may also find hjó in highly 'backward' dialects.
• hee /hɛː/ p. It. — Old English hit, neuter of hé, see hai.
• hjó /hjoː/ p. obs./dial. She. — Old English heó, feminine of hé, see hai.
• hwnd /hʊnd/ n. Hound, dog. — Old English hund, hound.
• hwndan /ˈhʊndæn/ v. To track or chase. — From hwnd, above.
• hẃd /huːd/ n. Guard dog. — Middle Hacean huud, dialectal form of huund, hund (= hwnd, q.v.).
• hẃdan /ˈhuːdæn/ v. To guard (as a dog). — From hẃd, above.
• hẃdár /ˈhuːdar/ n. colloq. Bouncer (of a night club). — On the notion that they guard like dogs, of course.

m

• mon /mɔn/ irreg. n. Man. — Old English man. Common in compounds, but less used than ƿeir when referring to a male adult.

Dual	meinaz, monaz
Plural	mein

ŋ

• ŋjoẃƿan /ˈŋjɔuwan/ v. To argue, to contend. — Old English cneátian, to argue. Note that the ƿ in this case is not part of the root, merely a joining to the suffix -an; i.e. the 1st person present indicative is ŋjoẃ.
• ŋowƿan /ˈŋɔʊwan/ v. slang To have a gut feeling for, to strongly feel. — Old English cnáwan, to know.
• ŋúr /ŋɑːr/ Small ship (e.g. a yacht). — Old English cnear, cnearr, from a Norse source, akin to Icelandic knörr.

ŕ

• ŕowƿan /ˈʀɔʊwæn/ v. To crow; to croak. — Old English cráwan, to crow.
• ŕowƿár /ˈʀɔʊwar/ n. Crow. — Formed from the verb, but less common than ŕowƿe, below.
• ŕowƿe /ˈʀɔʊwə/ n. Crow. — Old English cráwe, a crow (lit. crower).

s

• seiźan /ˈsɛɪʒæn/ v. To say, to utter. — Old English secgan, to say. Not the basic verb of speech, which is sƿreican, q.v.
• sja /sjæ/ n. Romantic love. — Middle Hacean sia, further etymology unknown.