hythe

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See also: Hythe and hyþe

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English hȳþ.

Pronunciation

Noun

hythe (plural hythes)

  1. (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.

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hȳþ (“harbor, landing-place”).

Noun

hythe

  1. hythe (landing-place in a river; port, haven)
Alternative forms
Descendants
  • English: hythe, hithe
  • Scots: hyth, hythe

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Etymology 2

Verb

hythe

  1. Alternative form of hight: simple past/past participle of hoten
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