different between rype vs rye

English

Etymology 1

Danish rype.

Noun

rype (plural rypes)

1. A bird, the ptarmigan.
   • 1909, Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News (volume 32, page 426)

     The rypes and our red grouse are identically the same bird, though disease has never been known in the former, and even interbreeding with the red grouse, to the limited extent they are ever likely to do, should do more good than harm.

Etymology 2

Adjective

rype

1. Obsolete spelling of ripe

Anagrams

• prey, pyre

Danish

Etymology

From Norwegian rype, from Old Norse rjúpa (“ptarmigan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ry?p?/, [??y?b??]

Noun

rype c (singular definite rypen, plural indefinite ryper)

1. ptarmigan (of the genus Lagopus)

Inflection

References

• “rype” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse rjúpa.

Noun

rype f or m (definite singular rypa or rypen, indefinite plural ryper, definite plural rypene)

1. a grouse or ptarmigan (genus Lagopus)
2. (colloquial, slightly vulgar) girl

Derived terms

• fjellrype
• lirype

References

• “rype” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• rjupa, rjupe, rypa

Etymology

From Old Norse rjúpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ry?p?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

rype f (definite singular rypa, indefinite plural ryper, definite plural rypene)

1. a grouse or ptarmigan (genus Lagopus)
2. (colloquial, slightly vulgar) girl

Derived terms

• fjellrype
• lirype

References

• “rype” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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