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rye
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)
- A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. [from 8th c.]
- The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. [from 14th c.]
- Rye bread. [from 19th c.]
- (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.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 159:
- Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
- Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
- 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)
- 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)
- rya
Related terms
- ru
References
- “rye” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- yre
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vye
English
Verb
vye (third-person singular simple present vyes, present participle vying, simple past and past participle vyed)
- Obsolete form of vie.
Afrikaans
Noun
vye
- plural of vy
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French vieux (“old”).
Adjective
vye
- old
Middle French
Noun
vye f (plural vyes)
- life
Descendants
- French: vie
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