stith

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English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stɪθ/

Etymology 1

From Middle English stith, from Old Norse steði. Compare stithy.

Noun

stith (plural stiths)

(obsolete) An anvil; a stithy.
- 1584, Robert Greene, the Card of Fancy:
  strike on the stith while the iron was hot

Etymology 2

From Middle English stith (“steady, strong, cruel”), from Old English stīþ (“hard, cruel”), from Proto-West Germanic *stinþ, from Proto-Germanic *stinþaz. Compare also Old Frisian stīth, Middle Low German stīde, Middle Dutch stīde, Old Norse stinnr, Danish stind, Swedish stinn.

Adjective

stith (comparative more stith, superlative most stith)

(UK, dialect, obsolete) strong; stiff; rigid

Anagrams

Hitts, histt.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English stīþ, from Proto-West Germanic *stinþ, from Proto-Germanic *stinþaz.

Alternative forms

stið, stithe, stiþ, styth, stythe, styþ

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stiːθ/

Noun

stith (plural and weak singular stithe)

Stiff, steady, stable; not pliable.
Strong, brave; having strength.
Mighty, flourishing, profuse; indicative of wealth.
Severe, intense, powerful; having intensity.
Merciless, unforgiving; showing no quarter.

Descendants

English: stith (dialectal)
Scots: styth

References

“stīth(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse steði, *steð; the vocalism in /i/ may be due to influence from smyth and smythy. Doublet of stithy.

Alternative forms

steyth, stiþ, styth, stythe

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stiθ/

Noun

stith (plural stithes)

anvil (iron block for shaping metal)
Synonyms: anvelt, stithy

Descendants

English: stith (obsolete)

References

“stīth(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic root related to *stadiz and akin to Old Norse steði (“anvil”). Akin to Old English stīþ (“hard, cruel”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈstiːθ/

Adjective

stīth

strong

References

Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
“stithy”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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