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Old English
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *hunþjō- (“landing place”), which could have originally meant "place for transfer, transshipment," related to *hunþu (“plunder”) and the strong verb *hinþaną (“to reach for”).[1]
Cognate with Old Saxon hūþ, Old High German -hude (in place-names).
Pronunciation
Noun
hȳþ f (nominative plural hȳþa or hȳþe)
- a harbour or landing-place, a hithe
- Guthlac of Crowland (674–715):
Comon ðær þry men to ðære hyðe.- Three men came to the landing-place.
Descendants
References
- ^ Vaan, M. d. (2017). The Dawn of Dutch: Language Contact in the Western Low Countries Before 1200. Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 442