Where does ythe come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

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ythe

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English

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noun

From Middle English ythe, ithe, uthe, from Old English ȳþ, from Proto-Germanic *unþī (“wave”).

ythes (plural)

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