firth English

Meaning firth meaning

What does firth mean?

firth

— noun a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)

Firth

— noun English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)

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What other words have the same or similar meaning as firth?

firth English » English

fiord

estuary

fjord

liman

harbor

estuary firth

drowned river mouth

branching bay

bay

Firth English » English

John Rupert Firth

J. R. Firth