Talk:frith
Suggest there might be a link inserted into Wiktionary to "Schadenfruede" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude#Spelling_and_etymology That wiki Article includes its partial etymology being - "Freude comes from the Middle High German freude, from the Old High German frewida, and is a cognate with the (usually archaic) English word frith."121.127.212.141 08:37, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
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No unequivocal evidence that this verb survived into ModE. Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 23:30, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
- The English Dialect Dictionary has half a dozen citations under their entry for frith (verb), but in a divergent array of senses and spellings (if we were willing to play fast and loose with spelling, there might be enough to attested "to plant a hedge (around)" as a sense), and not these senses / not even this etymology, it looks like. - -sche (discuss) 18:53, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
I added what I could find to the citations page. We now have enough for "to enclose or fence in". There are a number of other meanings, but all with only one or two cites. Kiwima (talk) 04:15, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
RFV-resolved Kiwima (talk) 22:49, 27 August 2021 (UTC)