firth

Meaning

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

estuary

fiord

fjord

branching bay

drowned river mouth

bay

estuary firth

harbor

liman

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɜːθ/

Inherited from Middle English

Inherited from Old English

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.

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