Brewer's: Frith

By frith and fell. By wold and wild, wood and common. Frith is the Welsh frith or friz, and means a “woody place.” Fell is the German fels (rock), and means barren or stony places, a common.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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