reim
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reim (plural reims)
- (South Africa) A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair and made pliable, used for twisting into ropes, etc.[1]
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- ^ 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products
“reim”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Icelandic edit
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Noun edit
reim f (genitive singular reimar, nominative plural reimar)
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- (shoelace): skóreim
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
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Noun edit
reim f or m (definite singular reima or reimen, indefinite plural reimer, definite plural reimene)
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- “reim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
reim f (definite singular reima, indefinite plural reimar or reimer, definite plural reimane or reimene)
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- “reim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
A rare word attested in a 17th century manuscript of Bjarnar saga Hítdœlakappa. The root vowel doesn't correspond to Proto-West Germanic *reumō, which is why it's usually assumed to be a late etymological nativization of Middle Low German rême. However, de Vries proposes "secondary vowel variation". According to the Den Danske Ordbog, related to the ultimate root of Swedish strimma (“stripe, streak”).[1] However, compare the base of Proto-Germanic *raipaz (“strip, strap”).[2]
Noun edit
reim f (genitive reimar, plural reimar)
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- Icelandic: reim
- Faroese: reim
- Norwegian Nynorsk: reim
- → Norwegian Bokmål: reim
- Old Swedish: rem, reem
- Swedish: rem
- Old Danish: rem, reem, røm
References edit
- “reim”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ “strime” in Den Danske Ordbog
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “riem1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute