Kite Definition
- soar
- sail
- hawk
- hang-glider
- bird
- tetrahedral kite
- tailless kite
- box kite
- Chinese kite
- Hargrave kite
- cellular kite
- Eddy kite
- go away and stop being a bother!
Other Word Forms of Kite
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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Kite
Origin of Kite
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Origin uncertain. Possibly from Middle English *kit, *kid (attested only in compounds: kidney), from Old English cwiþ (“belly, womb”), from Proto-Germanic *kweþuz (“stomach, belly”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-, *gut- (“swelling, rounding; stomach, entrails”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷu-, *gū- (“to bend, curve, bow, vault, distend”). Cognate with Icelandic kýta (“stomach of a fish, roe”), West Flemish kijte, kiete (“fleshy part of the body”), Middle Low German kūt (“entrails”), Icelandic kviður (“stomach”), kviði (“womb”).
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English kite, kete, from Old English cȳta (“kite, bittern”), from Proto-Germanic *kūtijô, diminutive of *kūts (“bird of prey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gū- (“to cry, screech”). Cognate with Scots kyt, kyte (“kite, bird of prey”), Middle High German kiuzelīn, kützlīn (“owling”), German Kauz (“barn owl, screech owl”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English bird of prey from Old English cȳta
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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