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rith

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See also: rið and riþ

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rith (plural riths)

  1. (obsolete) A small stream or channel.
    They waded further up the rith.
    • 1973 (quoting an earlier record), The Land Drainage Records of West Sussex: A Catalogue (West Sussex Record Office, David J. Butler), page xix:
      [] does not Cleanse part of two Riths or Sewers and repair so much of Pagham Wall against the Sea as doth belong to him to cleanse and to repair and the said Edward Woods to have notice to appear before us on the twenty Seventh day of this Instant December to give []
    • 1968 (quoting an earlier record), Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary [Records], page 472:
      [] Riths or Channels in the Harbour, as proposed in the Evidence of Charles Mant, Esquire, and alluded to in the Petition from Langstone, Your Committee are of opinion may be beneficially adopted and introduced in any Bill hereafter to []

Usage notes

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Now mostly found in surnames and place names like Hendrith and Tingrith.

Synonyms

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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish reithid (verb)[1] and riuth (noun),[2] from Proto-Celtic *reteti (verb) and *ritus (noun) (compare Middle Welsh redec), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂-. The vowel of the verb has been replaced with the vowel of the verbal noun, but is preserved in the dialectal form reath.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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rith (present analytic ritheann, future analytic rithfidh, verbal noun rith, past participle rite)

  1. to run

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Noun

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rith m or f (genitive singular reatha, nominative plural rití)

  1. verbal noun of rith
    Synonym: reáchtáil
  2. run

Declension

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Declension of rith (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative rith rití
vocative a rith a rití
genitive reatha rití
dative rith rití
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an rith na rití
genitive an reatha na rití
dative leis an rith
don rith
leis na rití

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “reithid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 90, page 50
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 180, page 69

Further reading

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Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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rith

  1. Soft mutation of rhith.

Mutation

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Mutated forms of rhith
radical soft nasal aspirate
rhith rith unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.