different between wath vs rath

English

Etymology

From Middle English wath, from Old Norse vað (“a ford”). Cognate with Scots wath, Swedish vad. Related to wade.

Noun

wath (plural waths)

1. (obsolete, except in dialect) A ford.
2. (obsolete) A fordable stream.

References

• The Oxford English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• HAWT, Thaw, hawt, thaw, what

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English w?þ and Old Norse veiðr.

Noun

wath

1. Alternative form of waith

Etymology 2

From Old Norse váði.

Noun

wath

1. Alternative form of wothe

Adjective

wath

1. Alternative form of wothe

Etymology 3

From Old Norse vað and Old English wæd, both from Proto-Germanic *wad?, from Proto-Indo-European *wad?om.

Alternative forms

• wathe, wadth, weth

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa?/

Noun

wath

1. (rare) A ford; a crossing through a stream.

Descendants

• English: wath (obsolete)
• Scots: wath (rare)

References

• “wath, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Irish ráth.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Rhymes: -???, Rhymes: -æ?
• Homophone: wrath (some dialects)

Noun

rath (plural raths)

1. (historical) A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
   • 1907, James Woods, Annals of Westmeath, Ancient and Modern:

     There are numerous Danish raths in the parish.

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 1:

     Those with Celtic legendry in their heritage—mainly the Scotch-Irish element of New Hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in Vermont on Governor Wentworth’s colonial grants—linked them vaguely with the malign fairies and “little people” of the bogs and raths, and protected themselves with scraps of incantation handed down through many generations.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Hindi ?? (rath), from Sanskrit ?? (ratha).

Noun

rath (plural raths)

1. A Burmese carriage of state.

Etymology 3

Adjective

rath (comparative more rath, superlative most rath)

1. Alternative form of rathe.

Anagrams

• Arth, HART, Hart, Thar, hart, tahr, thar

Cornish

Noun

rath f (plural rathes)

1. rat

Synonyms

• (Revived Late Cornish) logojen vroas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish rath (“grace, virtue”), from Proto-Celtic *?ratom (“grace, virtue, good fortune”), from the root *?ar- (“bestow”) (whence Old Irish ernaid, from Proto-Indo-European *perh?- (“bestow, give”) (whence also Sanskrit ?????? (p????ti, “grant, bestow”), Latin par? (“prepare”)).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /???h/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /??a/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /??ah/

Noun

rath m (genitive singular ratha)

1. (literary) bestowal, grant; grace, favour; gift, bounty
2. prosperity
3. abundance
4. usefulness, good

Declension

Derived terms

• anrath (“ill-luck”)

Further reading

• Matasovi?, Ranko (2009) , “far-na-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 122
• Matasovi?, Ranko (2009) , “frato-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 140
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 rath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “ra?” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "rath" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “prosperity” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• “success” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• rað

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *raþ? (“wheel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??/

Noun

rath n

1. wheel

Declension