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Definitions of firths in various dictionaries:
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)
noun - a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)
noun - an inlet of the sea
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Long, narrow estuaries |
Scottish inlets |
Scottish estuaries |
Long narrow Scottish estuaries |
Actor Colin's kin |
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Fjords have high walls; the walls of these, a term used mostly in Scotland, can be low |
In Scotland lochs are lakes & these are wide bays into which most of Scotland's rivers flow |
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Plural form of firth. |
a narrow inlet of the sea an estuary. |
A narrow inlet of the sea an estuary. |
Firths might refer to |
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Firth is a word in the Scots and English languages used to denote various coastal waters in Scotland and even a strait. In the Northern Isles, it more usually refers to a smaller inlet. It is linguistically cognate to fjord (both from Proto-Germanic *ferþuz) which has a more constrained sense in English. Bodies of water named "firths" tend to be more common on the east coast, or in the southwest of the country, although the Firth of Lorn is an exception to this. The Highland coast contains numerous estuaries, straits, and inlets of a similar kind, but not called "firth" (e.g. the Minch and Loch Torridon); instead, these are often called sea lochs. Before about 1850, the spelling "Frith" was more common. * A firth is generally the result of ice age glaciation and is very often associated with a large river, where erosion caused by the tidal effects of incoming sea water passing upriver has widened the riverbed into an estuary. Demarcation can be rather vague. The Firth of Clyde is sometim |