ridder

From Middle English ridder, rydder, from Old English hridder (“sieve”) (also as Old English hriddel > English riddle (“sieve”)), from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to divide; part; separate; sift”). Cognate with German Reiter (“sieve”).

ridder (plural ridders)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) a sieve

From Middle English riddren, from Old English hridrian, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrōną (“to sieve; sift”), from the noun. See above.

ridder (third-person singular simple present ridders, present participle riddering, simple past and past participle riddered)

1. (transitive) to sieve; sift; riddle

rid +‎ -er

ridder (plural ridders)

1. One who, or that which, rids.

• drider

From Middle Low German ridder (“rider, knight”). Compare late Old Norse riddari.

• IPA^(key): /ridər/, [ˈʁiðˀɐ]

ridder c (singular definite ridderen, plural indefinite riddere)

1. knight

• ridderlig ("chivalrous")
• ridderskab ("knighthood")

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪdər/

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• Hyphenation: rid‧der
• Rhymes: -ɪdər

From Middle Dutch riddere, a variant form of ridere, from Old Dutch *rīdere, from rīdan +‎ -ere (equivalent to modern rijder).

ridder m (plural ridders, diminutive riddertje n)

1. A knight.
2. (obsolete) One of certain butterflies of the family Papilionidae.
   1. (obsolete) In particular, the swallowtail, Papilio machaon.

• ridderkapel
• ridderschap
• riddertijd
• roofridder

• Afrikaans: ridder

ridder

1. first-person singular present indicative of ridderen
2. imperative of ridderen

Alteration of rider. From riden (“to ride”), from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną. Cognate with Dutch ridder and German Ritter (“knight”).

• IPA^(key): /rɪdːər/

ridder m (older plural riddere, younger/regional plural ridders)

1. a knight, an armored professional soldier usually employing a horse
2. a rider, someone who rides (regularly or professionally)

• rider (someone who rides)
• riden

• Danish: ridder

ridder m (definite singular ridderen, indefinite plural riddere, definite plural ridderne)

1. knight

• “ridder” in The Bokmål Dictionary.