different between reif vs seif

English

Alternative forms

• rief

Etymology

From Middle English ref, reaf, reif, from Old English r?af (“plunder, spoil, booty, raiment, garment, robe, vestment, armor”), from Proto-West Germanic *raub, from Proto-Germanic *raub?, *raubaz (“rape, robbery”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to rip, tear”).

Cognate with Scots reif, rief (“robbery, depredation, spoliation”), Saterland Frisian roowje (“loot, rob”), Dutch roof (“spoil, booty, robbery”), German Raub (“robbery, spoils, plunder”). See also reave, robe.

Noun

reif (uncountable)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) Robbery.
   • c. 1524,, a letter, recorded in The History of Scotland (John Hill Burton, 1873), volume 3, page 109:

     The opposition, which, as we shall see, was headed by Archbishop Beaton, protested against the "daily slaughters, murders, reifs, thefts, depredations, and heavy attemptates, that are daily and hourly committed within this realm in fault of justice."

   • c. 1577–1587, Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles:

     […] meaning to live by reif of other mennes goodes, wherein they have no manner of propertie.

   • 1814, Walter Scott, Waverley:

     […] the lawless thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands, had been in fellowship together by reason of their surnames for the committing of divers thefts, reifs, and herships.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:reif.

References

• reif in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• -fier, FIRE, Fier, Frie, fier, fire, refi, rief, rife

German

Etymology

From Old High German r?fi, akin to Old Saxon r?pi (Modern Dutch rijp).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??f/

Adjective

reif (comparative reifer, superlative am reifsten)

1. ripe
2. mature

Declension

Antonyms

• unreif

Related terms

• Reife

Further reading

• “reif” in Duden online
• “reif” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “reif”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Icelandic

Verb

reif

1. first-person singular past indicative of rífa
2. third-person singular past indicative of rífa

Luxembourgish

Verb

reif

1. second-person singular imperative of reiwen

Middle English

Alternative forms

• reaf, ræf, ref, reve, raf, ræve, rave, reafe

Etymology

From Old English r?af, from Proto-West Germanic *raub, from Proto-Germanic *raubaz, *raub?, *raub?. Doublet of robe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??f/, /r??v/

Noun

reif (plural reves)

1. A piece of clothing or gear, especially priestly.
2. (rare) pillaging, looting; intense destruction.
3. (rare) loot, spoils; the fruit of success.
4. (rare) destructiveness; the quality of being damaging.

Descendants

• English: reif, reaf, rief
• Scots: reif, rief, reiff, refe, ref

References

• “r?f, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.
• “r?f, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

Scots

Alternative forms

• rief, reiff, refe, ref

Etymology

From Middle English reif, from Old English r?af, from Proto-West Germanic *raub, from Proto-Germanic *raubaz.

Noun

reif

1. robbery
   • 1809, The Sang of the Outlaw Murray, in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: Historical ballads (Walter Scott), page 18:

     The man that wons yon Foreste intill,

     He lives by reif and felonie !

English

Alternative forms

• saif

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (sayf, “sword”).

Noun

seif (plural seifs)

1. A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind.
   • 1954, Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel, Volume 4, page 196,

     Such seifs have a somewhat zig-zag form instead of a fairly straight line.

     On the top of seifs small transverse dunelets are very often found, and these may be likened to almost straightened-out barchans. […] On the top of the seif they form a wave-like pattern with a fairly defined "wavelength".

   • 1973, Ralph Alger Bagnold, The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, page 224,

     Though the actual transition forms suggested in Fig. 76 do exist and have been examined by the author, the above tentative explanation of the growth of a seif dune chain should certainly not be taken as implying that all such chains have originated as barchans.

   • 1980, P. Turner, Continental Red Beds, page 80,

     Seifs are longitudinal forms elongated parallel to the prevailing wind direction.

Synonyms

• longitudinal dune

See also

• Dune#Seif or longitudinal dunes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EFIs, Feis, ISEF, feis, fise

Old French

Alternative forms

• seid

Etymology

Latin sitis.

Noun

seif m (nominative singular seis)

1. thirst

Romanian

Etymology

From English safe.

Noun

seif n (plural seifuri)

1. safe box

Declension