different between reve vs reive

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French rêver.

Verb

reve

1. dream

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English r?fa, ?er?fa.

Alternative forms

• refe, reeve, reyve, reove

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?v(?)/

Noun

reve (plural reves or reven)

1. A reeve or bailiff (a local official); an administrator.
   • 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue to the Reves Tale, 1915, The College Chaucer, page 94,

     Ne at this tale I saugh no man hym greve, / But it were oonly Osewold the Reve;

2. An administrator of an estate or manor; a manager or steward.
3. (Christianity) A subordinate or deputy of God.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)

Related terms

• shirreve

Descendants

• English: reeve

References

• “r??ve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-01.

Etymology 2

Verb

reve

1. Alternative form of reven

Etymology 3

Noun

reve

1. Alternative form of reif

Middle French

Alternative forms

• resve

Etymology

Old French rueve, ultimately from Latin rog? (“I ask; I demand”).

Noun

reve f (plural reves)

1. a taxation on imports and exports

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (reve)
• reve on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun rev

Verb

reve (imperative rev, present tense rever, passive reves, simple past reva or revet or revde, past participle reva or revet or revd, present participle revende)

1. (nautical) to reef (a sail)
   • "Rev seilene, rev seilene!", skrek kapteinen. [1]

References

• “reve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

English

Verb

reive (third-person singular simple present reives, present participle reiving, simple past and past participle reived or reft)

1. Archaic spelling of reave.
   • 1567 July 19, Proclamation by the Earl of Bedford, quoted in Calendar of State Papers, foreign series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1566-8 (1871), volume 10:

     [The earl] commands all within his charge to abstain from reiving or stealing from the subjects of Scotland. For such riefs as have been made upon them, the Queen minds to have the same mended by justice.

   • 2014, Peter T. Leeson, Anarchy Unbound ?ISBN:

     So, although many borderers regularly engaged in reiving, most were also part-time agriculturalists, raising crops such as oats and rye, as well as livestock.

Anagrams

• revie, rieve, verie

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Central Franconian rieve

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra??v?/

Verb

reive

1. to rub

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian brev, Swedish brev.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?rej?ve/

Noun

reive

1. letter (message)

Inflection

Alternative forms

• breava

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland