bypath
See also: by-path
English
Alternative forms
- by-path
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bypath; by surface analysis, by + path.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪˌpɑːθ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪˌpæθ/
Noun
bypath (plural bypaths)
- An unfrequented path; an indirect route; a byway.
- 1927, Li, Chi, “Archaeological Survey of the Fêng River Valley, Southern Shansi, China”, in Explorations and Field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1926 (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections), volume 78, number 7, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, OCLC 1051580882, page 129:
- Having gone to Chiang Chou from Chü-wo by the northern route through Hou-ma, we returned over a bypath through mountains in the south which has been gradually elevated from the Fêng River valley by loess deposit.
- 1927, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Outlaw of Torn, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
- … until he knew every bypath within a radius of fifty miles of Torn.
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Translations
unfrequented path, byway
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Middle English
Alternative forms
- bipath, bi-path, bi path, bypathe, bypaþ, by-paþ
Etymology
From by- + path.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbiːˌpaθ/, /ˈbiːˌpaːθ/
Noun
bypath (plural bypathes)
- (often figurative) bypath, byway
- (rare) shortcut, bypass
Descendants
- English: bypath, by-path
References
- “bī-path, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.