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frith
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)
- (rare, archaic, poetic) Peace; security.
- (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- (peace): This sense is obsolete, except that it has recently been revived among followers of Heathenry.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)
- (transitive, obsolete) To protect; guard.
- (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)
- 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; [...]
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 11 p. 174[1]:
- (Britain, dialectal) Land with mostly undergrowth and few trees; also, land in between forests or woods; pastureland which is not in use.
- Brushwood or undergrowth, sometimes in the form of a hedge.
- A hedge, especially one made from brushwood which has been wattled; also, a movable frame made from wattled branches, a hurdle.
- (obsolete) A kind of weir made from wattled branches for catching fish.
Etymology 4
A metathetic variant of firth.
Noun
frith (plural friths)
- (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
- a state of peace, typically with regard to a nation
- 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
- peace
Descendants
- Danish: fred
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Derived from the preposition ri (“with, against”), from Old Irish fri (“towards”).
Adjective
frith
- 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
- Soft mutation of brith.
Mutation
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drith
English
Noun
drith
- Alternative form of dryth
Anagrams
- third, thrid
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