rype
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
rype (plural rypes)
- A bird, the ptarmigan.
- 1909, Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News, volume 32, page 426:
- The rypes and our red grouse are identically the same bird, though disease has never been known in the former, and even interbreeding with the red grouse, to the limited extent they are ever likely to do, should do more good than harm.
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
rype
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Norwegian rype, from Old Norse rjúpa (“ptarmigan”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rype c (singular definite rypen, plural indefinite ryper)
Inflection edit
Declension of rype
References edit
- “rype” in Den Danske Ordbog
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
rype f or m (definite singular rypa or rypen, indefinite plural ryper, definite plural rypene)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “rype” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rype f (definite singular rypa, indefinite plural ryper, definite plural rypene)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “rype” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.