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in reply to a message by Lissa
Can be a variant spelling of firth, which is like a shallow fjord. Or, equally, can be a cognate of words like Friede = peace. I'd be happy with either!
In that Paul Gallico novel, The Snow Goose, the heroine is Frith, and there's an ultramarathon athlete here in south Africa who is also a female Frith - admirable woman.
In that Paul Gallico novel, The Snow Goose, the heroine is Frith, and there's an ultramarathon athlete here in south Africa who is also a female Frith - admirable woman.
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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.
Rosey.
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Who'd want to name their kid Gorse, anyway? Y >P
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