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- Dictionaryfirth/fəːθ/
noun
- 1. a narrow inlet of the sea; an estuary: "the Moray Firth"
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- Firth
Word in the Lowland Scots language and in English used to denote various coastal waters in Scotland and England
Firth is a word in the English and Scots languages used to denote various coastal waters in the United Kingdom, predominantly within Scotland. In the Northern Isles, it more often refers to a smaller inlet. It is linguistically cognate to Scandinavian fjord and fjard (all from Proto-Germanic *ferþuz), with the original meaning of "sailable waterway". The word has a more constrained sense in Englis... Wikipedia
