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rith.

A small stream or channel.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɹaɪθ/UK, US
  1. A small stream or channel.

    obsolete
    They waded further up the rith.
Where this word comes from

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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