rath

Borrowed from Old Irish ráth.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɑːθ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹæθ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːθ, Rhymes: -æθ
• Homophone: wrath (some dialects)

rath (plural raths)

1. (historical) A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
   • 1907, James Woods, Annals of Westmeath, Ancient and Modern:

     There are numerous Danish raths in the parish.

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 1, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

     Those with Celtic legendry in their heritage—mainly the Scotch-Irish element of New Hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in Vermont on Governor Wentworth’s colonial grants—linked them vaguely with the malign fairies and “little people” of the bogs and raths, and protected themselves with scraps of incantation handed down through many generations.

From Hindi रथ (rath), from Sanskrit रथ (ratha).

rath (plural raths)

1. A Burmese carriage of state.

rath (comparative more rath, superlative most rath)

1. Alternative form of rathe.

• Arth, HART, Hart, Thar, hart, tahr, thar

rath f (plural rathes)

1. rat

• (Revived Late Cornish) logojen vroas

rath

1. singular imperative of rathen

From Old Irish rath (“grace, virtue”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸratom (“grace, virtue, good fortune”), from the root *ɸar- (“bestow”) (whence Old Irish ernaid, from Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- (“bestow, give”) (whence also Sanskrit पृणाक्ति (pṛṇā́kti, “grant, bestow”), Latin parō (“prepare”)).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɾˠɑh/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /ɾˠa/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɾˠah/

rath m (genitive singular ratha)

1. (literary) bestowal, grant; grace, favour; gift, bounty
2. prosperity
3. abundance
4. usefulness, good

• anrath (“ill-luck”)

• rað

From Proto-West Germanic *raþ, from Proto-Germanic *raþą (“wheel”).

• IPA^(key): /rɑθ/

rath n

1. wheel