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English

Etymology

From Middle English rie, reighe, from Old English ry?e, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrug?ís.

Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian ???? (rož?) and Latvian rudzi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophone: wry

Noun

rye (countable and uncountable, plural ryes)

1. A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. [from 8th c.]
2. The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. [from 14th c.]
3. Rye bread. [from 19th c.]
4. (US, Canada) Rye whiskey. [from 19th c.]
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 159:

     I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.

5. Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
6. Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
7. A disease of hawks.

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

Coordinate terms

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

Derived terms

• ryegrass

Translations

Anagrams

• -ery, -yer, Rey, Yer, e'ry, eyr, yer, yre

Middle English

Alternative forms

• rie, reye, reyghe, reyhe, ruye

Etymology

From Old English ryge, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?(?)/

Noun

rye (plural ryes)

1. rye (Secale cereale)

Descendants

• English: rye
• Scots: ry
• Yola: ree

References

• “r?e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

rye f (definite singular rya, indefinite plural ryer, definite plural ryene)

1. rya

Related terms

• ru

References

• “rye” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• yre

English

Etymology 1

Yapese [Term?]

Noun

rai (countable and uncountable, plural rai)

1. stone money

Etymology 2

Noun

rai (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of raï (“musical style”)

Anagrams

• 'air, ARI, Ari, IAR, IRA, Ira, RIA, air, ria

Atong (India)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raj/

Noun

rai (Bengali script ???? or ???)

1. reed

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Old French rai, from Latin radius.

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

1. ray

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?raj/

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

1. raft

Interjection

rai

1. that's of no importance
2. tu rai!, don't worry!
3. això rai!, no problem!

Usage notes

• It is a particle that it is always put after another word (noun, pronoun, infinitive, etc) to make a complete proposition without verb in form of exclamation indicating that a thing does not matter, is the evidence out of the case treated or that it is presupposed.

Fijian

Noun

rai

1. sight

Verb

rai

1. to see

French

Etymology

From Old French rai, inherited from Latin radius. Doublet of radius, a borrowing. Unrelated to raie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

1. ray, beam (of light etc.)

   Synonym: rayon

2. spoke (of wheel)

Derived terms

• rayon

Related terms

• radiation
• radieux
• irradier

Further reading

• “rai” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• air, ira

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin radius.

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

1. ray, beam
2. spoke
3. radius

Hausa

Noun

râi m (plural r?yuk??, possessed form râin)

1. life
2. spirit, mind
3. hope, salvation
4. prosperity

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan rai. Doublet of raggio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rai?/, [r?äi?]
• Rhymes: -ai
• Hyphenation: rài

Noun

rai m pl (plural only)

1. (literary) rays
2. (literary, figuratively) looks
3. (literary, figuratively) eyes

Anagrams

• ari, ira, rià

References

• rai in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti
• Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) , “rai”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati

Japanese

Romanization

rai

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Javanese

Alternative forms

• Carakan: ???

Noun

rai (krama-ngoko rai, krama inggil pasuryan)

1. face

   Synonyms: dhapur, muka, rupa, wajah

References

• "rai" in Tim Balai Bahasa Yogyakarta, Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa). Kanisius, Yogyakarta

Kavalan

Noun

rai

1. mussel

Malay

Noun

rai

1. rye

Maori

Noun

rai

1. rye

Norman

Etymology

From Old French rai, from Latin radius (“spoke”).

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

1. (Jersey, cycling, etc.) spoke

Old French

Etymology

From Latin r?dius.

Noun

rai m (oblique plural rais, nominative singular rais, nominative plural rai)

1. beam; ray (of light)

Descendants

• Bourguignon: rai
• ? English: ray
• French: rai
• Norman: rai

Romanian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic ??? (raj), from Proto-Slavic *raj?, borrowed from Iranian, from Proto-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-European *reh?ís (“wealth, goods”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raj/

Noun

rai n (plural raiuri)

1. eden
2. paradise

Declension

See also

• paradis, cer

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) retg
• (Surmiran) rètg
• (Puter) raig

Etymology

From Latin r?x, r?gem, from Proto-Indo-European *h?r??s (“ruler, king”).

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

1. (Vallader) king

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English ride.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rai/, [?rai?]

Noun

rai m (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador) ride

   dar rai

   Synonyms: aventón, (Spain) vuelta en coche

Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (ra?y).

Pronunciation

Noun

rai (n class, plural rai)

1. opinion, view

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ??? (raj).

Noun

rai

1. paradise, heaven

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “???”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rai?/

Determiner

rai

1. Soft mutation of rhai.

Mutation