firth

Significado (Inglés)

An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary.

Sinónimos

estuary

fiord

fjord

branching bay

drowned river mouth

bay

estuary firth

harbor

liman

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/fɜːθ/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: fyrth

Herdado de Old English: ford

Herdado de Old English: fyrhþe

In summary

Borrowed from Scots firth, furth, from Northern Middle English fyrth, from either or both 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, and port.