rithe

From Middle English rithe, rith, from Old English rīþ m, rīþe f (“small stream, rithe”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīþ, from Proto-Germanic *rīþaz, *rīþǭ (“stream, beck, brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to arise, arise”).

Cognate with Old Frisian rīth, rīd (“stream, beck”), Old Saxon rīth (“stream, torrent”) (> Middle Low German rîde), Old Dutch rīth (“stream, beck”), German -reide (“stream”, in placenames).

rithe (plural rithes)

1. (dialect) A small stream.

• Erith, Reith, Rieth, Thier, tehri, their, theri-

rithe

1. present subjunctive analytic of rith

rithe

1. plural of rith

From Old French rire, from Late Latin rīdere, from Latin rīdēre.

rithe (gerund rithie)

1. (Jersey) to laugh

• plieuther (“to cry, weep”)

• rieux (“merry person”)

From Old Irish frie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾʲi.ə/
• (Lewis) IPA^(key): [ˈði.ə]
• (Barra) IPA^(key): [ˈɾʲi.ɔ]
• (Argyll) IPA^(key): [ˈɾiːçə]

rithe (emphatic rithese)

1. third-person singular feminine of ri: with her, with it

• ris