rye
See also: Rye
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English ryġe, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *rúgʰis. Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian рожь (rožʹ) and Latvian rudzi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹaɪ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪ
- Homophone: wry
Noun
rye (countable and uncountable, plural ryes)
- A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. [from 8th c.]
- The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. [from 14th c.]
- Rye bread. [from 19th c.]
- (US, Canada) Rye whiskey. [from 19th c.]
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 159:
- I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 159:
- Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
- Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
- A disease of hawks.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
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Translations
the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food
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rye whisky — see rye whisky
rye bread — see rye bread
carraway — see carraway
ryegrass — see ryegrass
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