rine

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See also: Rine, riñe, riṋe, and řine

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English rinen, from Old English hrīnan, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīnan, from Proto-Germanic *hrīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to strip, touch”).

Verb

rine (third-person singular simple present rines, present participle rining, simple past and past participle rined)

  1. (transitive) To touch.
  2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To concern; affect.
  3. (transitive, UK dialectal) To pertain to; fall to.
  4. (transitive, UK dialectal) To tend to a certain effect or outcome.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English rune, from Old English ryne (“a course, run, running, orbit, a flow, flux, period of time, cycle, luster, expanse, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *runiz (“course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to cause to move, grow”). Cognate with German Ronne (“a channel”), Icelandic ryne (“a flow, stream”). See runnel.

Alternative forms

Noun

rine (plural rines)

  1. (UK dialectal) A watercourse or ditch.

Etymology 3

Variation of rind.

Noun

rine (plural rines)

  1. Alternative form of rind

Anagrams

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *rinē.

Noun

riṇe

  1. snow or rime that collects on trees and structures

Inflection

Even e-stem, ṇ-n gradation
Nominative riṇe
Genitive rine
Singular Plural
Nominative riṇe rineh
Accusative rine riinijd
Genitive rine rinij
riinij
Illative riṇán riinijd
Locative riineest riinijn
Comitative riinijn rinijguin
Abessive rinettáá rinijttáá
Essive rinneen
Partitive rinneed
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person — — —
2nd person — — —
3rd person — — —

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

rine (Cyrillic spelling рине)

  1. third-person singular present of rinuti

Tagalog

Pronunciation

Adverb

rine (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈᜒ)

  1. Alternative form of rini
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