rýja

• IPA^(key): /ˈriːja/
• Rhymes: -iːja

From Old Norse rýja. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk rye, Swedish rya (whence Finnish ryijy). Probably from the same root as English rough.

rýja f (genitive singular rýju, nominative plural rýjur)

1. rag, cloth

   Synonyms: tuska, pjatla

• rýjateppi

From Old Norse rýja, from Proto-Germanic *rūjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH- (whence also Latin ruō, Lithuanian ráuti).

rýja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative rúði, supine rúið or rúð)

1. (transitive, with accusative) to shear

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• rýja af
• rýja inn að skinninu, rýja inn að skinni (synonymous blóðmjólka, féfletta; to steal the shirt off somebody's back)
• rýja inn að skyrtunni (synonymous blóðmjólka, féfletta; to steal the shirt off somebody's back)

From Proto-Germanic *rūjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH- (see also Latin ruō, Lithuanian ráuti).

rýja (singular past indicative rúði, plural past indicative rúðu, past participle rúinn)

1. (transitive, of sheep) to pull the wool off

• Icelandic: rýja

• rýja in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “868-71”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 868-71