name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
firth
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /fɜːθ/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /fɝθ/
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Scotland: /fɪɹθ/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)θ
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CMU ARPABET: F ER1 TH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A town in Bingham County, Idaho, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A village in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
A parish on the Bay of Firth, Mainland, Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HY3514 (approx.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 5
A small village in north-east Mainland, Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU4473).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 6
A hamlet south-east of Lilliesleaf, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT5423).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary.
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noun
Meaning 8
Alternative form of frith (“a forest used for hunting; a (small) wood; wooded country; land covered mainly by brushwood”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, alt-of, alternative
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noun
Meaning 9
a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: estuary
Narrower terms: Firth of Clyde, Firth of Forth, Moray Firth, Solway Firth
noun
Meaning 10
English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: J. R. Firth, John Rupert Firth
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Broader terms: linguist, linguistic scientist
History
Etymology
* As an English and Scottish surname, from Old English fyrhþe (“forest”). * As a Scottish surname, from Firth in Orkney, itself from Old Norse fjǫrðr (“firth”). * As a Welsh surname, from ffrith, itself borrowed from the first sense.
Borrowed from Scots firth, furth, from Northern Middle English fyrth, from either or both of Old English ford and Old Norse fjǫrðr (“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, port, and fjard.
From Middle English fyrth, a metathetic variant of frith (“forest”), from Old English fyrhþe, fyrhþ (“forest, wooded country; game preserve, hunting ground”), from Proto-West Germanic *furhiþi (“forest, woodland”), Proto-Germanic *furhiþją (“forest, wooded country”), *furhiþǭ, from *furhu (“fir; pine”), from *furahō, *furhō (“fir; pine; (fir or pine) forest”), from Proto-Indo-European *pérkus (“oak”), from *perkw- (“oak”).
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: тесен залив (tesen zaliv) — arm or inlet of the sea
- Czech: ústí řeky — arm or inlet of the sea
- Finnish: estuaari — arm or inlet of the sea
- Finnish: lahti — arm or inlet of the sea
- Finnish: vuono — arm or inlet of the sea
- Galician: esteiro — arm or inlet of the sea
- Galician: ría — arm or inlet of the sea
- Old Norse: fjǫrðr — arm or inlet of the sea
- Russian: лима́н (limán) — arm or inlet of the sea
- Scots: firth — arm or inlet of the sea
- Scottish Gaelic: caol — arm or inlet of the sea
- Scottish Gaelic: linne — arm or inlet of the sea
- Spanish: ría — arm or inlet of the sea
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