rithe

From Middle English rithe, rith, from Old English rīþ m, rīþe f (“small stream, rithe”), from Proto-Germanic *rīþaz, *rīþǭ (“stream, beck, brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to arise, arise”). Cognate with Old Frisian rīth, rīd (“stream, beck”), Old Saxon rīth (“stream, torrent”) (> Middle Low German rîde), Old Dutch rīth (“stream, beck”), German -reide (“stream”, in placenames).

rithe (plural rithes)

1. (dialectal) A small stream.

• Reith, Rieth, tehri, their, theri-

rithe

1. present subjunctive analytic of rith

rithe

1. plural of rith

From Old French rire, from Latin rīdeō, rīdēre.

rithe (gerund rithie)

1. (Jersey) to laugh

• plieuther (“to cry, weep”)

• rieux (“merry person”)

• ri + i

rithe

1. with her
2. with it

• rithese

• prepositional pronoun
• ris