HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

An onomatopoeia.[1]

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈriː]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -riː

VerbEdit

  1. (intransitive, literary, folksy) to weep
    Synonym: sír
  2. (transitive, literary, folksy) to say something while weeping

ConjugationEdit

With its uncommon transitive forms:

Derived termsEdit

Compound words

(With verbal prefixes):

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further readingEdit

  • in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

AnagramsEdit

IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish , from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (ruler, king).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

 m (genitive singular , nominative plural ríthe)

  1. king (male monarch)
  2. king (in chess; in cards; in checkers/draughts)

DeclensionEdit

  • Superseded spelling of genitive singular: ríogh
  • Superseded spelling of dative singular: rígh
  • Alternative nominative plural: ríogha
  • Alternative genitive plural: ríogh

Coordinate termsEdit

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

Chess pieces in Irish · fir fichille (layout · text)
           
banríon caiseal easpag ridire ceithearnach, fichillín

Further readingEdit

Middle IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish , from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (ruler, king), which is derived from *h₃reǵ-.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

 m (genitive ríg, nominative plural ríg)

  1. king
    • c. 1000, The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig, section 1, published in Irische Teste, vol. 1 (1880), edited by Ernst Windisch:
      Boí amra for Laignib, .i. Mac Dathó a ainm.
      There was a wonderful king over the Leinstermen; Mac Dathó was his name.

Coordinate termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Irish:
  • Manx: ree
  • Scottish Gaelic: rìgh

Further readingEdit

Old IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (ruler, king), which is derived from *h₃reǵ-. Cognates include Sanskrit राज् (rāj, king), राजन् (rājan), and Latin rēx (king).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

 m (genitive ríg, nominative plural ríg)

  1. king
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 85d7
      amtis forbristi ind ríg, glosses principibus oppressis

DeclensionEdit

Masculine g-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative rígL ríg
Vocative rígL ríga
Accusative rígN rígL ríga
Genitive ríg ríg rígN
Dative rígL rígaib rígaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

SynonymsEdit

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DescendantsEdit

Further readingEdit