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raie

See also: râie

French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʁɛ/
  • Audio:(file)

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old French roie, from a Vulgar Latin riga, probably from Gaulish *rica (“furrow”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸrikā (“furrow”) (compare Old Irish rech).[1]

Noun

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raie f (plural raies)

  1. (agriculture) ridge between furrows, balk (an unplowed strip of land)
    une raie de champ ― a field balk
  2. line
    J’ai fait une raie. ― I drew a line.
    tracer une raie au crayon, à la plume ― draw a line with a pencil, a quill
  3. scratch, mark
  4. cleft (between the buttocks)
  5. stripe
    marbre marqué de raies noires ― marble marked with black lines
  6. parting (in hair)
    porter la raie au milieu, de côté ― have one’s hair parted in the middle, on the side

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Latin raia.

Noun

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raie f (plural raies)

  1. (zoology) ray
Derived terms
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Etymology 3

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Inflected forms.

Verb

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raie

  1. inflection of rayer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages *140-141

Anagrams

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Galician

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Verb

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raie

  1. inflection of raiar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈra.je/
  • Rhymes: -aje
  • Hyphenation: rà‧ie

Noun

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raie f pl

  1. plural of raia

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Norman

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Etymology 1

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From Old French roie, from Gaulish *rica (“furrow”).

Noun

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raie f (plural raies)

  1. (Jersey, agriculture) furrow
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Etymology 2

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From Latin raia.

Noun

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raie f (plural raies)

  1. (Jersey) skate, ray
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Old French

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Etymology

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First attested circa 1155, from Latin raia.

Noun

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raie oblique singular, f (oblique plural raies, nominative singular raie, nominative plural raies)

  1. ray (fish)

Descendants

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  • English ray
  • French: raie
  • Norman: raie (Jersey)

Portuguese

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Verb

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raie

  1. inflection of raiar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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