different between regen vs reen

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of regeneration.

Noun

regen (plural regens)

1. regeneration
2. A regenerative radio receiver.

Verb

regen (third-person singular simple present regens, present participle regenning or regening, simple past and past participle regenned or regened)

1. (informal) regenerate

Anagrams

• Egner, Geren, Green, Green., genre, green, neger

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?.??(n)/
• Hyphenation: re?gen
• Rhymes: -e???n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch r?gen, from Old Dutch regan, from Proto-Germanic *regn?.

Noun

regen m (plural regens, diminutive regentje n)

1. rain

   Hypernym: neerslag

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: reën

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

regen

1. first-person singular present indicative of regenen
2. imperative of regenen

Verb

regen

1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of rijgen

Anagrams

• enger, genre, neger

German

Etymology

From Middle High German regen (“to make protrude, to erect, to excite, to move”), effective of ragen.

Pronunciation

Verb

regen (weak, third-person singular present regt, past tense regte, past participle geregt, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to move

2. (reflexive) to move (intransitive)
3. (reflexive) to be active doing something, occupying oneself
4. (reflexive) to budge, to become noticeable

Conjugation

Derived terms

• abregen
• anregen
• aufregen
• erregen
• rege
• reglos
• regsam
• Regung

Further reading

• “regen” in Duden online

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German r?genen, from the noun Regen, from Old Saxon regan, from Proto-West Germanic *regn. Cognate with English rain, Dutch regenen.

Verb

regen (past singular regen, past participle regent, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. (impersonal) to rain

Conjugation

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch regan, from Proto-West Germanic *regn.

Noun

r?gen m

1. rain

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• r?genen

Descendants

• Dutch: regen
  • Afrikaans: reën
• Limburgish: raenger
• West Flemish: rin, rein

Further reading

• “reghen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “regen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?r???n/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?re???n/, /?r???n/

Noun

regen

1. Soft mutation of rhegen.

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• rean
• rhyne

Noun

reen (plural reens)

1. A running waterway that links a ditch or stream to a river.

References

• Evans, Trevor (2007), Flora of Monmouthshire ?ISBN.

Anagrams

• NEER, Neer, Rene, erne, ne'er, neer

Esperanto

Adverb

reen

1. once more, again

Finnish

Noun

reen

1. Genitive singular form of reki.