riet

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch riet, from Middle Dutch riet, from Old Dutch riet, ried, *riod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud (“reed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rit/

Noun

riet (plural riete, diminutive rietjie)

1. reed

Derived terms

• rietdak
• rietsuiker

Danish

Verb

riet

1. past participle of ri

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch riet, from Old Dutch riet, ried, *riod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud (“reed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rit/

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• Hyphenation: riet
• Rhymes: -it
• Homophone: Ried

Noun

riet n (plural rieten, diminutive rietje n)

1. reed

Derived terms

• dakriet
• rieten
• rietgors
• rietkraag
• rietsuiker
• rietzanger
• suikerriet

Descendants

• Afrikaans: riet
• Negerhollands: ried
• → Papiamentu: rit, riet

Anagrams

• tier

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

riet

1. first/third-person singular preterite of raten

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *rey-tey, *rey-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *rey-. The original diphthong ey is still seen in the present tense forms (reju, etc.). Cognates include Lithuanian ríeti (“to bark; to scold”), Old Prussian rīgewings (/⁠rījewinɡs⁠/, “quarreling”), Russian dialectal ра́ять (rájatʹ, “to make noise”), Old High German rērēn, Middle High German rēren (“to bleat, to bellow, to shout”), German röhren, Sanskrit रायति (rāyati, “to bark”), Ossetian рӕйын (ræjyn), рӕйун (ræjun), Northern Kurdish reyîn (“to bark”).

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Verb

riet (transitive, 1st conjugation, present reju, rej, rej, past rēju)

1. (of animals, especially dogs) to bark (to produce short, loud noises with the vocal organs)

   Nakts vidū suņi sāka neganti riet. ― In the middle of the night, the dogs started barking fiercely.

   Naktīs varēja dzirdēt vilkus gaudojam un lapsas rejam māju tuvumā. ― At night, one could hear the wolves wailing and the foxes barking near the house.

2. (of machine guns) to bark (to shoot rapidly)

   Kauca lielgabali, rēja ložmetēji, mežs stenēja. ― The cannons howled, the machine guns barked, the forest groaned.

3. (of people) to bark (to talk loud, usually angrily)

   Lizalka, mūžam ar visu neapmierināta, rēja uz cilvēkiem gluži kā suns. ― Lizalka, eternally dissatisfied with everything, barked at people just like a dog.

Conjugation

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

other derived terms:

• rējiens
• rieties

See also

• kaukt
• vau

References

Luxembourgish

Verb

riet

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

Volapük

Noun

riet (nominative plural riets)

1. wrist

Declension