different between brushwood vs frith

English

Etymology

brush +? wood

Noun

brushwood (countable and uncountable, plural brushwoods)

1. Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs.
   • 1991, Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons, Oxford University Press, Chapter 3, p. 14,

     Small streams with hollowed-out banks came into sight, and the tiniest mill-ponds with frail dams, and little villages with low peasant huts under dark roofs, often with half their thatch gone, and small threshing barns all tilted to one side with walls made out of woven brushwood and gaping openings beside dilabidated hay-barns […]

2. Small trees and shrubs.
   • 1920, R. B. Cunninghame Graham, A Brazilian Mystic, Being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro, London: Heinemann, Chapter 12, p. 169, [2]

     Houses had been deserted, and the thick brushwood of the tropics had grown up over everything, obliterating the brief authority of man.

Translations

References

• OED2

Anagrams

• shrubwood

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English frith, from Old English friþ, friþu (“peace, tranquility, security, refuge”), from Proto-West Germanic *friþu, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (“peace, reconciliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“beloved, happy”).

Cognate with Dutch vrede (“peace, quiet, tranquility”), German Frieden (“peace, tranquility”), Swedish frid (“peace, serenity”), Icelandic friður (“peace, tranquility”). Related to free.

Noun

frith (uncountable)

1. (rare, archaic, poetic) Peace; security.
2. (obsolete) Sanctuary, asylum.

Usage notes

• (peace): This sense is obsolete, except that it has recently been revived among followers of Heathenry. When used by Heathens, it is fairly synonymous with the slightly less rare English word comity.

Etymology 2

From Middle English frithien, from Old English friþian (“to give frith to, make peace with, be at peace with, cherish, protect, guard, defend, keep, observe”), from Proto-Germanic *friþ?n? (“to make peace, secure, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *pr?y-, *pr?y- (“to like, love”).

Cognate with Scots frethe, freith (“to set free, liberate”), Danish frede (“to have peace, protect, inclose, fence in”), Swedish freda (“to cover, protect, quiet, inclose, fence in”), Icelandic friða (“to make peace, preserve”).

Verb

frith (third-person singular simple present friths, present participle frithing, simple past and past participle frithed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To protect; guard.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To enclose; fence in, as a forest or park.

Etymology 3

From Middle English frith (“game preserve, royal forest; park, woodland meadow; wooded area; wilderness; enclosure; fence of brush or wattle, hedge; materials for making such a fence”) [and other forms], from Old English fyrhþe, fyrhþ (“forest, wooded country; game preserve, hunting ground”), from Proto-West Germanic *furhiþi (“forest, woodland”), Proto-Germanic *furhiþj? (“forest, wooded country”), *furhiþ?, from *furhu (“fir; pine”), from *furah?, *furh? (“fir; pine; (fir or pine) forest”), from Proto-Indo-European *pérkus (“oak”), from *perk?- (“oak”). The English word is cognate with Latin quercus (“oak”), Old English fyrh (“fir, pine”), Old High German forst, foreht (“forest”), Old Norse fýri (“pine-wood, coniferous forest”). Latin foresta (whence eventually English forest), may be borrowed from the same West Germanic source.

Noun

frith (plural friths)

2. A forest or wood; woodland generally.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 11 p. 174[1]:

     As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell; [...]

3. (Britain, dialectal) Land with mostly undergrowth and few trees; also, land in between forests or woods; pastureland which is not in use.
4. Brushwood or undergrowth, sometimes in the form of a hedge.
5. A hedge, especially one made from brushwood which has been wattled; also, a movable frame made from wattled branches, a hurdle.
6. (obsolete) A kind of weir made from wattled branches for catching fish.

Etymology 4

A metathetic variant of firth.

Noun

frith (plural friths)

2. (archaic) Alternative form of firth (“an arm or inlet of the sea”)
   • 1807: Charlotte Turner Smith: from the poem, Beachy Head: / The southern hills / That to the setting Sun, their graceful heads / Rearing, o'erlook the frith, where Vecta breaks / With her white rocks, the strong impetuous tide, / When western winds the vast Atlantic urge / To thunder on the coast / [Vecta here is The Isle of Wight]

References

Further reading

• frith on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “frith” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “frith”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Firth, firth

Middle English

Alternative forms

• friþ, friþe, friþþ, freth, frethe, freþ, fryth, ffryth, firth, fright

Etymology

From Old English friþ, friþu.

Noun

frith

1. a state of peace, typically with regard to a nation
2. traditional or customary law

Descendants

• English: frith

References

• “frith, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse friðr.

Noun

frith m

1. peace

Descendants

• Danish: fred

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Derived from the preposition ri (“with, against”), from Old Irish fri (“towards”).

Adjective

frith

1. little, small

Usage notes

• Always used before the noun it qualifies.
• Usually used as a prefix.

Derived terms

• frith-

References

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vri??/

Adjective

frith

1. Soft mutation of brith.

Mutation