Rith

//ɹaɪθ// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small stream or channel. obsolete

    "They waded further up the rith."

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beckbeckbournbrookletbrookletburn

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"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).

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