hythe
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English hȳþ.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /hʌɪð/
- IPA(key): /hɔɪv/ (Essex East Anglian)
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌɪð
Noun[edit]
hythe (plural hythes)
- (obsolete) A landing-place in a river; a harbour or small port.
- 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 202:
- That morn to other hythe we made our way / finding the peoples that before we found, / by a broad River, and we gave it name / from the high hol'iday when to port we came.
- 1954, JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:
- On the bank of the Silverlode, at some distance up from the meeting of the streams, there was a hythe of white stones and white wood. By it were moored many boats and barges.
References[edit]
- “hythe”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English hȳþ (“harbor, landing-place”).
Noun[edit]
hythe
- hythe (landing-place in a river; port, haven)
Alternative forms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “hīth(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
hythe
- Alternative form of hight: simple past/past participle of hoten
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