reim

• riem

Borrowed from Afrikaans riem.

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːm/
• Rhymes: -iːm
• Homophones: ream, reem, reme, rheme

reim (plural reims)

1. (South Africa) A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair and made pliable, used for twisting into ropes, etc.^[1]

“reim”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IMer, Meir, Meri, Mire, Remi, emir, meri, mire, riem, rime

From Old Norse reim.

• IPA^(key): /reiːm/
• Rhymes: -eiːm

reim f (genitive singular reimar, nominative plural reimar)

1. strap, belt
2. shoelace

• (shoelace): skóreim

• skóreim

• ermi
• meir
• meri

• rem

From Old Norse reim.

reim f or m (definite singular reima or reimen, indefinite plural reimer, definite plural reimene)

1. a belt, strap

• klokkereim
• lærreim
• registerreim

• “reim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse reim.

reim f (definite singular reima, indefinite plural reimar or reimer, definite plural reimane or reimene)

1. a belt, strap

• klokkereim
• registerreim

• “reim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• meir, remi, rime

A rare word attested in a 17th century manuscript of Bjarnar saga Hítdœlakappa. The root vowel doesn't correspond to Proto-West Germanic *reumō, which is why it's usually assumed to be a late etymological nativization of Middle Low German rême. However, de Vries proposes "secondary vowel variation". According to the Den Danske Ordbog, related to the ultimate root of Swedish strimma (“stripe, streak”).^[1] However, compare the base of Proto-Germanic *raipaz (“strip, strap”).^[2]

reim f (genitive reimar, plural reimar)

1. a lash, thong

• Icelandic: reim
• Faroese: reim
• Norwegian Nynorsk: reim
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: reim
• Old Swedish: rem, reem
  • Swedish: rem
• Old Danish: rem, reem, røm
  • Danish: rem
    • Norwegian Bokmål: rem

• “reim”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press