cyf

From Proto-West Germanic *kūbiju, from Proto-Germanic *kūbaz, perhaps from Latin cūpa. Possibly a doublet of cuppe and cȳpe. Alternatively, perhaps a clipping of Old English cȳfel.

• IPA^(key): /kyːf/

cȳf f

1. vessel, vat

• Middle English: kive
  • English: keeve

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cyf”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.