reive

English

Verb

reive (third-person singular simple present reives, present participle reiving, simple past and past participle reived or reft)

  1. Archaic spelling of reave.
    • 1567 July 19, Proclamation by the Earl of Bedford, quoted in Calendar of State Papers, foreign series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1566-8 (1871), volume 10:
      [The earl] commands all within his charge to abstain from reiving or stealing from the subjects of Scotland. For such riefs as have been made upon them, the Queen minds to have the same mended by justice.
    • 2011, Mark Richards, Hadrian's Wall Path: Two-way national trail description →ISBN, page 102:
      Spine-chilling tales of reiving raids are a legendary legacy of these violent times, when careless murder, theft and pillage were everyday professions.
    • 2014, Peter T. Leeson, Anarchy Unbound →ISBN:
      So, although many borderers regularly engaged in reiving, most were also part-time agriculturalists, raising crops such as oats and rye, as well as livestock.

Anagrams


Hunsrik

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈraɪ̯və/

Verb

reive

  1. to rub

Further reading


Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian brev, Swedish brev.

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈrejːve/

Noun

reive

  1. letter (message)

Inflection

Even e-stem, iv-ivv gradation
Nominative reive
Genitive reivve
Singular Plural
Nominative reive reivvet
Accusative reivve reivviid
Genitive reivve reivviid
Illative reivii reivviide
Locative reivves reivviin
Comitative reivviin reivviiguin
Essive reiven
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person reiven reiveme reivemet
2nd person reivet reivede reivedet
3rd person reives reiveska reiveset

Alternative forms

Further reading

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