reit

See also: REIT and réit

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹiːt/

Noun

reit (countable and uncountable, plural reits)

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) sedge; seaweed
    • 1661, Robert Lovell, ΠΑΝΖΩΟΡΥΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANZŌORYKTOLOGIA]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All Authors, both Ancient and Modern, Galenicall and Chymicall, [...], Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] Hen[ry] Hall, for Jos[eph] Godwin, →OCLC:
      The Squillae [] live in marine [] places: their meat is oisters, and reites.

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Estonian

Noun

reit

  1. partitive singular of reis

German

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

reit

  1. singular imperative of reiten

Icelandic

Noun

reit

  1. inflection of reitur:
    1. indefinite accusative singular
    2. indefinite dative singular

Latgalian

Etymology 1

Akin to Latvian rīt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈræ̂i̯t]
  • Hyphenation: reit

Adverb

reit

  1. tomorrow

Etymology 2

Akin to Latvian rīt

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈræ̀i̯t]
  • Hyphenation: reit

Verb

reit

  1. (transitive) to swallow

References

  • Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʀɑɪ̯t/

Verb

reit

  1. inflection of reiden:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person plural present indicative
    3. second-person singular imperative
    4. second-person plural imperative

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɛɪːt/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse reitr m.

Noun

reit m (definite singular reiten, indefinite plural reitar, definite plural reitane)

  1. a plot of land; a small field, patch
    Synonym: åkerlapp

reit f (definite singular reita, indefinite plural reiter, definite plural reitene)

  1. a furrow
    Synonym: fòr
  2. a line
    Synonyms: strek, stripe, linje
Derived terms
  • nepereit
  • reitbruk

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

reit

  1. imperative of reite

References

  • “reit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “reit”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
  • “reit” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

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Old High German

Verb

reit

  1. first/third-person singular past indicative of rītan

Old Norse

Noun

reit m

  1. accusative singular of reitr

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English right.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rei̯t/
  • Rhymes: -ei̯t

Adjective

reit (feminine singular reit, plural reit, unknown comparative, not mutable)

  1. right, correct, fine
  2. happy, contented

Adverb

reit

  1. very
  2. quite
  3. directly, straight
  4. completely

Interjection

reit

  1. right

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “reit”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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