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Mithe was a body of water in the Shire, the outflow of the Shirebourn river into the Brandywine.


[edit] Etymology

The name is obviously unrelated to the English verb mithe meaning "hide, conceal, avoid".

Andreas Möhn has suggested that Mithe means "Place where two streams meet", derived from Old English mūþ or ġemȳþ "river-mouth, meeting of streams". Möhn adds that Mithe "is evidently related to 'mouth' and probably a derivative surviving in English place-names".[3]

