rian

From Old Irish rían.

rian m (genitive singular riain, nominative plural rianta)

1. course, path
2. mark, trace, track
3. (card games) jink
4. power of movement, vigor
5. (traditional) genealogy

• Alternative genitive plural used in certain cases: rian

• comhrian (“corresponding course; contour”)
• trasrian (“crossing”)
• rianaí (“wayfarer, wanderer; tracker, tracer; genealogist”)
• rianaigh (“to mark out, trace, indent, chart, track”)

• “rían” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “rian” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 568.
• "rian" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “rian” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “rian” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

rian

1. water

• Terry Crowley, ‎Claire Bowern, An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (2010, →ISBN, page 333
• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

From Latin rivus.

rian m (please provide plural)

1. brook

From Old Irish rían.

rian m (genitive singular rian, plural rianan)

1. method, system, mode, manner
2. methodicalness, orderliness
3. reason, sense, sanity
4. (music) arrangement

• mì-rian (“confusion, disorder, turbulence”)
• rianachd (“management, administration”)
• rianadair (“arranger; controller, governor”)
• rianail (“methodical”)
• rianaire (“administrator”)

rian

1. definite singular of ria