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rine en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

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”).

Meanings

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

Forms

Deriveds

berine · atrine · arine

rine en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. (UK, dialectal) A watercourse or ditch.

Forms

rine en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

Variation of rind.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of rind.
   alt of rind

Forms