rine

See also: Rine, riñe, riṋe, and řine

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English rinen, from Old English hrīnan, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīnan, from Proto-Germanic *hrīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to strip, touch”).

Verb

rine (third-person singular simple present rines, present participle rining, simple past and past participle rined)

1. (transitive) To touch.
2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To concern; affect.
3. (transitive, UK dialectal) To pertain to; fall to.
4. (transitive, UK dialectal) To tend to a certain effect or outcome.

Derived terms

• arine
• atrine
• berine

Etymology 2

From Middle English rune, from Old English ryne (“a course, run, running, orbit, a flow, flux, period of time, cycle, luster, expanse, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *runiz (“course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to cause to move, grow”). Cognate with German Ronne (“a channel”), Icelandic ryne (“a flow, stream”). See runnel.

Alternative forms

• rhine, rone, rune

Noun

rine (plural rines)

1. (UK dialectal) A watercourse or ditch.

Etymology 3

Variation of rind.

Noun

rine (plural rines)

1. Alternative form of rind.

Anagrams

• in re, Neri, rein, REIN, Érin, Reni, N.Ire., Rein, Erin

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *rinē.

Noun

riṇe

1. snow or rime that collects on trees and structures

Inflection

Even e-stem, ṇ-n gradation
Nominative	riṇe
Genitive	rine
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	riṇe	rineh
Accusative	rine	riinijd
Genitive	rine	rinij riinij
Illative	riṇán	riinijd
Locative	riineest	riinijn
Comitative	riinijn	rinijguin
Abessive	rinettáá	rinijttáá
Essive	rinneen
Partitive	rinneed
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person — — — 2nd person — — — 3rd person — — —

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

rine (Cyrillic spelling рине)

1. third-person singular present of rinuti

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɾine/ [ˈɾiː.n̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ine
• Syllabification: ri‧ne

Adverb

rine (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈᜒ)

1. alternative form of rini