firth
firth · firths
лиман
An arm or inlet of the seaAn arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary.
UK/fɜːθ/US/fɝθ/
Meaning
1 sensesAn arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary.
лима́нlimán
More definitions
- a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)
- 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)
Translations
2 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
arm or inlet of the sea:
Origin
Borrowed from Scots firth, furth, from Northern Middle English fyrth, from either or bothBorrowed 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.
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Forms
plural: firthsSynonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- 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):J. R. FirthJohn Rupert Firth