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English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old Irish ráth.
Pronunciation
Noun
rath (plural raths)
- (historical) A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
1907, James Woods, Annals of Westmeath, Ancient and Modern:There are numerous Danish raths in the parish.
1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 1, in The Whisperer in Darkness:Those with Celtic legendry in their heritage—mainly the Scotch-Irish element of New Hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in Vermont on Governor Wentworth’s colonial grants—linked them vaguely with the malign fairies and “little people” of the bogs and raths, and protected themselves with scraps of incantation handed down through many generations.
Related terms
Translations
walled enclosure, ringfort
Etymology 2
From Hindi रथ (rath), from Sanskrit रथ (ratha).
Noun
rath (plural raths)
- A Burmese carriage of state.
Etymology 3
Adjective
rath (comparative more rath, superlative most rath)
- Alternative form of rathe.
Anagrams
Cornish
Noun
rath f (plural rathes)
- rat
Synonyms
German
Verb
rath
- singular imperative of rathen
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish rath (“grace, virtue”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸratom (“grace, virtue, good fortune”), from the root of *ɸarnati (“bestow”) (whence Old Irish ernaid, from Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- (“bestow, give”) (whence also Sanskrit पृणाक्ति (pṛṇā́kti, “grant, bestow”), Latin parō (“prepare”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
rath m (genitive singular ratha)
- (literary) bestowal, grant; grace, favour; gift, bounty
- prosperity
- abundance
- usefulness, good
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 rath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “frato-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 140
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “far-na-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 122
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 106, page 58
Further reading
Old Saxon
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *raþ, from Proto-Germanic *raþą (“wheel”).
Pronunciation
Noun
rath n
- wheel
Declension
Declension of rath (neuter a-stem)