rine

See also: Rine and riñe

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English rinen, from Old English hrīnan, from Proto-Germanic *hrīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to strip, touch”).

Verb

rine (third-person singular simple present rines, present participle rining, simple past and past participle rined)

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

Etymology 2

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 *er(e)- (“to cause to move, grow”). Cognate with German Ronne (“a channel”), Icelandic ryne (“a flow, stream”). See runnel.

Alternative forms

Noun

rine (plural rines)

  1. (Britain dialectal) A watercourse or ditch.

Etymology 3

Variation of rind.

Noun

rine (plural rines)

  1. Alternative form of rind

Anagrams

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *rinē.

Noun

riṇe

  1. snow or rime that collects on trees and structures

Inflection
Even e-stem, ṇ-n gradation
Nominative riṇe
Genitive rine
Singular Plural
Nominative riṇe rineh
Accusative rine riinijd
Genitive rine rinij
riinij
Illative riṇán riinijd
Locative riineest riinijn
Comitative riinijn rinijguin
Abessive rinettáá rinijttáá
Essive rinneen
Partitive rinneed
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person — — —
2nd person — — —
3rd person — — —

Further reading
  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
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