hriddel

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxrid.del/, [ˈr̥id.del]

Noun

hriddel n

1. sieve

Descendants

• English: riddle

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “hriddel”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.