rithe

rithe (plural rithes)

1. Alternative form of rith (“small stream”)
   • 1805, Walley Chamberlain Oulton, The Traveller's Guide; Or, English Itinerary, page 436:

     Besides these branches, there are several rithes or channels, […]

   • 1927, Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, Antiquity, page 156:

     […] in Tingrithe (Bedfordshire), really thing-rithe or stream, by the site of Manshead hundred meeting-place, and in the discovery in the North Riding of the names Landmoth, i.e. land-moot, and Fingay (i.e. thing-how) Hill close together.

• Erith, Reith, Rieth, Thier, tehri, their, theri-

rithe

1. present subjunctive analytic of rith

rithe

1. plural of rith

From Old French rire, from Late Latin rīdere, from Latin rīdēre.

rithe (gerund rithie)

1. (Jersey) to laugh

• plieuther (“to cry, weep”)

• rieux (“merry person”)

From Old Irish frie.

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /ˈði.ə/, /ˈði.ɪ/^[1]
• (Uist) IPA^(key): /ˈɾʲi.ə/^[2], [ˈɾʲiˑ.ə]^[3]
• (Barra) IPA^(key): [ˈɾʲiˑ.ʌ]^[4]
• (Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /ˈɾʲi.ɪ/^[5]
• (Argyll) IPA^(key): [ˈɾiːçə]

rithe (emphatic rithese)

1. third-person singular feminine of ri: with her, with it