sythe

sythe (plural sythes)

1. Obsolete form of scythe.

sythe (third-person singular simple present sythes, present participle sything, simple past and past participle sythed)

1. Obsolete form of scythe.

• “sythe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• hyest, they's, ythes

• syth, ssythe, syþe, cythe

From Old English sīþe, sīgþe, sigdi (“sickle”), from Proto-West Germanic *sigiþi, from Proto-Germanic *sigiþiz, *sigiþō, derived from *seg- (“saw”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːð(ə)/

sythe (plural sythes)

1. scythe

• English: scythe
• Scots: sithe, scythe

• “sīthe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.