hythe

See also: Hythe and hyþe

English

Alternative forms

• hithe

Etymology

From Old English hȳþ.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hʌɪð/
• IPA^(key): /hɔɪv/ (Essex East Anglian)

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌɪð

Noun

hythe (plural hythes)

1. (obsolete) A landing-place in a river; a harbour or small port.
   • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 202:

     That morn to other hythe we made our way / finding the peoples that before we found, / by a broad River, and we gave it name / from the high hol'iday when to port we came.

   • 1954, JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:

     On the bank of the Silverlode, at some distance up from the meeting of the streams, there was a hythe of white stones and white wood. By it were moored many boats and barges.

References

• “hythe”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hȳþ (“harbor, landing-place”).

Noun

hythe

1. hythe (landing-place in a river; port, haven)

Alternative forms

• hyth, hyeth, hyd, hyde, hyda, heythe, hith, hithe, hieth, hid, hide, hida, hethe, heithe, heda

Descendants

• English: hythe, hithe
• Scots: hyth, hythe

References

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

Etymology 2

Verb

hythe

1. Alternative form of hight: simple past/past participle of hoten