different between kype vs rype

English

Alternative forms

• kipe

Etymology

From Scots kip, kipp (“something beaked or hooked”); perhaps related to Middle Low German kippe (“point, tip”), German Kippe (“stub”), both from Latin cippus (“stake, post, boundary marker”).

Noun

kype (plural kypes)

1. The hook that develops in the lower jaw of an adult male salmon when it is ready to spawn.

See also

• Oncorhynchus, a genus named for its having kypes

References

• “kype” in the Collins English Dictionary
• “kype”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Pyke, pyke

English

Etymology 1

Danish rype.

Noun

rype (plural rypes)

1. A bird, the ptarmigan.
   • 1909, Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News (volume 32, page 426)

     The rypes and our red grouse are identically the same bird, though disease has never been known in the former, and even interbreeding with the red grouse, to the limited extent they are ever likely to do, should do more good than harm.

Etymology 2

Adjective

rype

1. Obsolete spelling of ripe

Anagrams

• prey, pyre

Danish

Etymology

From Norwegian rype, from Old Norse rjúpa (“ptarmigan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ry?p?/, [??y?b??]

Noun

rype c (singular definite rypen, plural indefinite ryper)

1. ptarmigan (of the genus Lagopus)

Inflection

References

• “rype” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse rjúpa.

Noun

rype f or m (definite singular rypa or rypen, indefinite plural ryper, definite plural rypene)

1. a grouse or ptarmigan (genus Lagopus)
2. (colloquial, slightly vulgar) girl

Derived terms

• fjellrype
• lirype

References

• “rype” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• rjupa, rjupe, rypa

Etymology

From Old Norse rjúpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ry?p?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

rype f (definite singular rypa, indefinite plural ryper, definite plural rypene)

1. a grouse or ptarmigan (genus Lagopus)
2. (colloquial, slightly vulgar) girl

Derived terms

• fjellrype
• lirype

References

• “rype” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.