Rhine

Rhine

See also: rhine

English

Etymology

From Middle English Rine, Ryne, from Old English Rīn (“the Rhine”), from Middle High German and Old High German Rīn, from Proto-West Germanic *Rīn, from Proto-Germanic *Rīnaz, from Gaulish Rēnos, from a Pre-Celtic or Proto-Celtic *rēnos; one of a class of river names built from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to move, flow, run”).[1]

Cognate with Old High German Rīn ("the Rhine"; > German Rhein), Old Norse Rín (“the Rhine”), Dutch Rijn (“the Rhine”). Related also to Latin rivus ("river"), in Celtic with an -n- suffix as in Old Irish rīan (“run”) (more at run).

The spelling with Rh- is due to the influence of Ancient Greek Ῥῆνος (Rhênos) (via French Rhin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹaɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

Proper noun

the Rhine

1. A river in western Europe, that flows through Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany, France and the Netherlands, before emptying into the North Sea.

Translations

river that flows through Europe

Afrikaans: Ryn Albanian: Rhein Arabic: نَهْر اَلرَّايْن‎ m (nahr ar-rayn) Armenian: Հռենոս (Hṙenos) Azerbaijani: Reyn (az) Basque: Rhin Bavarian: Rhein Belarusian: Рэйн m (Rejn) Bulgarian: Рейн m (Rejn) Catalan: Rin m Chinese: Mandarin: 萊茵河／莱茵河 (zh) (Láiyīn hé) Czech: Rýn (cs) m Danish: Rhinen (da) Dutch: Rijn (nl) m Esperanto: Rejno Estonian: Rein Faroese: Rín f Finnish: Rein (fi) French: Rhin (fr) m Old French: Rin m Georgian: რაინი (raini) German: Rhein (de) m Central Franconian: Rhing m Rhine Franconian: Rhoi (Palatine) Greek: Ρήνος (el) m (Rínos) Ancient: Ῥῆνος m (Rhênos) Hebrew: ריין‎ Hindi: राइन (rāin) Hungarian: Rajna (hu) Icelandic: Rín (is) f Indonesian: Rhein Irish: An Réin f Italian: Reno (it) m Japanese: ライン川 (Rain-gawa) Kazakh: Рейн (Rein) Korean: 라인 강 (Rain gang) Kyrgyz: Рейн (Reyn) Latin: Rhēnus (la) Latvian: Reina f Limburgish: Rien (li) Lithuanian: Reinas m Luxembourgish: Rhäin (lb) m Macedonian: Ра́јна f (Rájna) Malay: Rhine Norwegian: Bokmål: Rhinen Nynorsk: Rhinen Occitan: Ren m Old English: Rīn m or f Old Norse: Rín f Persian: راین‎ (fa) (râyn) Polish: Ren (pl) m Portuguese: Reno m Romanian: Rin (ro) m Romansch: Rain m, Rein m Russian: Рейн (ru) m (Rejn) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Рајна f Latin: Rajna (sh) f Slovak: Rýn Slovene: Ren (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: Ryn m Upper Sorbian: Ryn m Spanish: Rin m Swabian: Rei Swedish: Rhen (sv) Tajik: Рейн (Reyn) Thai: ไรน์ (rái) Turkish: Ren (tr) Turkmen: Reýn Ukrainian: Рейн m (Rejn) Uzbek: Reyn Welsh: Rhein Yiddish: ריין‎ m (reyn)

References

1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 326 etymon 3. er- : or- : r- 'to move, set in motion' (laryngealistic reconstruction as "*h₁reiH").

Anagrams

• Hiner, Hiren, rhein