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[Facts] Re: Frith
in reply to a message by Lissa
Can be a variant spelling of firth, which is like a shallow fjord. Or, equally, can be a cognate of words like Friede = peace. I'd be happy with either!In that Paul Gallico novel, The Snow Goose, the heroine is Frith, and there's an ultramarathon athlete here in south Africa who is also a female Frith - admirable woman.
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The OED does include "Frith" as a now obsolete english word meaning "peace; freedom from molestation, protection; safety, security." Same etymology as the Friede Anneza mentions!
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When I was doing a project at university on place names I remember reading that Frith is an Old English word meaning furze which is another word for gorse, a prickly bush found on heathland (and The New Forest among other places). There is a place called Fritham which has a lot of gorse bushes around there. I've heard Frith as a surname, but not as a first name.Rosey.
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Who'd want to name their kid Gorse, anyway? Y >P
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Going by some of the names offered up on the baby name board hundreds of people :)
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There's no accounting for taste! Y :)
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I've heard Frith as a surname as well, and in Catherine Palmer's "English Ivy", there's a character named John Frith.
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