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Firth is a cognate of fjord, a Norse word meaning a narrow inlet.. Forth stems from the name of the river; this is *vo-rit-ia ('slow running') in Proto-Celtic, yielding Foirthe in Old Gaelic and Gweryd in Welsh.
Firth is a word in the English and Scots languages used to denote various coastal waters in the United Kingdom, predominantly within Scotland. In the Northern Isles , it more often refers to a smaller inlet .
First reference gives the word as the local pronunciation of go out; the second as "A water-pipe under the ground. A sewer. A flood-gate, through which the marsh-water runs from the reens into the sea." Reen is a Somerset word, not used in the Fens. Gout appears to be cognate with the French égout, "sewer". Though the modern mind associates ...
The Islands of the Forth are a group of small islands located in the Firth of Forth and in the estuary of the River Forth on the east coast of Scotland. Most of the group lie in the open waters of the firth, between the Lothians and Fife, with the majority to the east of the city of Edinburgh. Two islands lie further west in the river estuary.
The place type in the list for Scotland records all inhabited areas as City. According to British government definitions, there are only eight Scottish cities; [1] they are Aberdeen, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Perth and Stirling. The other locations may be described by such terms as town, burgh, village, hamlet ...
In Danish, the word may even apply to shallow lagoons. In modern Icelandic, fjörður is still used with the broader meaning of firth or inlet. In Faroese fjørður is used both about inlets and about broader sounds, whereas a narrower sound is called sund. In the Finnish language, a word vuono is used although there is only one fjord in Finland.
The East Neuk of Fife, looking out over the Firth of Forth to East Lothian, with the Bass Rock in the centre. The East Neuk (/ iː s t nj uː k / ⓘ) or East Neuk of Fife is an area of the coast of Fife, Scotland.
The estuary of the River Nith, opening into the Solway Firth south of Dumfries. The Solway Firth [a] is an inlet on the west coast of Great Britain, forming part of the border between England and Scotland. [b] The "firth" (a Scottish term for inlets of the sea) divides Cumbria (including the Solway Plain) from Dumfries and Galloway.