firth

Meanings

Plural: firths

Noun

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)
a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)
An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary.
Alternative form of frith (“a forest used for hunting; a (small) wood; wooded country; land covered mainly by brushwood”).

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

J. R. Firth, John Rupert Firth

Scrabble Score: 11

firth is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
firth is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
firth is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

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