frith2 (1366)
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frith2 (1366)

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[gdw]

  FEW: ∅ Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF: ∅ DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  frith n.2  MED:  frith n.2  DMLBS:  frithum 1 1012c
frithe,  fryth,  frythe, 
pl. frithis  
ls(loanword: English Welsh (?))
le

In origin an English word meaning 'game preserve', 'enclosed park', or 'woodland', when appearing in Welsh and Cambro-Latin contexts the term seems to show an additional, more specialised, meaning, 'hill pasture': see DMLBS as well as Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru/A Dictionary of the Welsh Language ffridd. This additional sense is arguably present in Anglo-Norman, in the citation below from RLiR 58.

s.

1park, woodland, hill pasture: 
( 1366 )  Uxor ejus fecit recursum pundero de vitulis captis infra lé frithis de villa  sub frith n. 1
( 1371 )  Item une autre tiel a monsire Robert de Swylington gardeyn de noz frithes et parkes le counté de Laycestre ou son lieutenant pour delivrer a monsire Johan Talbot deux daymes en le frith de Leycestre ou en le parc de Tolow  ii 10
( 1373 )  Johan par la grace de Dieu etc. a nostre bien ame Symond de Shirford nostre forestier deinz nostre fryth de Leycestre saluz  ii 148
( 1390-99 )  le dit David ad occupié et chargiez la pasture de la dite fryth de Kevenlleeghesva  482 (= TNA SC 2/220/12 no 9A)
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