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[Facts] Re: Frith
by Pavlos (guest)
11/26/2002, 8:27 AM
in reply to a message by Anneza
The OED does include "Frith" as a now obsolete english word meaning "peace; freedom from molestation, protection; safety, security." Same etymology as the Friede Anneza mentions!
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- Rosey (guest)   +4
11/28/2002, 11:27 AM
When I was doing a project at university on place names I remember reading that Frith is an Old English word meaning furze which is another word for gorse, a prickly bush found on heathland (and The New Forest among other places). There is a place called Fritham which has a lot of gorse bushes around there. I've heard Frith as a surname, but not as a first name.Rosey.
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- Yahalome (guest)   +3
11/28/2002, 12:48 PM
Who'd want to name their kid Gorse, anyway? Y >P
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- raindancing (guest)   +2
11/28/2002, 5:04 PM
Going by some of the names offered up on the baby name board hundreds of people :)
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- Yahalome (guest)   +1
11/29/2002, 2:34 PM
There's no accounting for taste! Y :)
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- Ellie (guest)
11/30/2002, 8:01 PM
I've heard Frith as a surname as well, and in Catherine Palmer's "English Ivy", there's a character named John Frith.
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