Rain
English
Estonian
Etymology
Short form of Rainer and other Germanic compound given names with the first element meaning "counsel".
Related terms
German

Ein Rain
Alternative forms
- Rein (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle High German rein, which also appears in reinkurni, reinifano (“tansy”), Modern German Rainfarn, for this plant’s growing as field mark, from Old High German rein (“wall, baulk, ridge”), from Proto-Germanic *rainō, cognate with Icelandic rein, Swedish ren, English rean (“ridge, furrow, gutter”), Lithuanian raivė̃ (“furrow”), Latvian rieva (“furrow”), Latin rīma (“slit”), all perhaps related to Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- and the antecedents of Reihe, English row, as well as to reif, English ripe.
Noun
Rain m (strong, genitive Rains or Raines, plural Raine)
- edgepath (the space between two fields)
- 1906, Hermann Hesse, chapter 2, in Unterm Rad [Beneath the Wheel], Berlin: S. Fischer:
- Auf den vielen heidigen Rainen zwischen Wald und Wiese flammte brandgelb der zähe Ginster, dann kamen lange, lilarote Bänder von Erika, dann die Wiesen selber, zumeist schon vor dem zweiten Schnitte stehend, von Schaumkraut, Lichtnelken, Salbei, Skabiosen farbig überwuchert.
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- (Switzerland) small slope, incline
Declension
Derived terms
- anrainen
- Anrainer
- Berain
Related terms
References
- Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Rain”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
Further reading
- “Rain” in Duden online
- “Rain” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Rain” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
Romansch
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