Rith
/ɹaɪθ/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A small stream or channel. obsolete
"They waded further up the rith."
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
More examples"They waded further up the rith."
Etymology
From Middle English rīth (“a small stream”), rithe, from Old English rīþ m (“a small stream”), rīþe f, from Proto-West Germanic *rīþ, from Proto-Germanic *rīþaz, *rīþǭ (“stream, beck, brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to arise, arise”). Cognate with Old Frisian rīth, rīd (“stream, beck”), Old Saxon rīth (“stream, torrent”) (> Middle Low German rîde), Old Dutch rīth (“stream, beck”), German -reide (“stream”, in placenames).