Rhine

See also: rhine

English

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Rhine

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 *reinos; 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/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -aɪn

Proper noun

the Rhine

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

Derived terms

Translations

river that flows through Europe

Afrikaans: Ryn
Albanian: Rhein
Alsatian: Rhy (Mulhouse), Rhin (North)
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 (ca) 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
Galician: 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: Réin f
Italian: Reno (it) m
Japanese: ライン川 (Rain-gawa)
Kazakh: Рейн (Rein)
Korean: 라인 강 (Rain gang)
Kyrgyz: Рейн (Reyn)
Lao: ໄຣນ໌ (rain), ແມ່ນ້ຳໄຣນ໌ (mǣ nam rain)
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), แม่น้ำไรน์
Turkish: Ren (tr)
Turkmen: Reýn
Ukrainian: Рейн m (Rejn)
Uzbek: Reyn
Welsh: Rhein
Yiddish: ריין m (reyn)

References

^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “326”, in 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

[1] Pokorny, Julius (1959) “326”, in 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").

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