different between firmth vs firth

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English firth, fyrth, borrowed from Scots firth, furth, from Old Norse fj?rðr (“firth, fjord”), from Proto-Germanic *ferþu, *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to carry forth”) + *-tus (suffix forming action nouns from verb roots). The English word is a doublet of fjord, ford, and port.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)?

Noun

firth (plural firths)

1. An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary. [from c. 1600]

Alternative forms

• frith

Hypernyms

• loch, sea loch

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English firth, fyrth [and other forms], a metathetic variant of 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”).

Noun

firth (plural firths)

1. (chiefly Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of frith (“a forest used for hunting; a (small) wood; wooded country; land covered mainly by brushwood”)

Alternative forms

• fyrth (obsolete)

Translations

References

Further reading

• firth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Frith, frith

Middle English

Noun

firth

1. Alternative form of frith