rype

English

Etymology 1

Danish rype

Noun

rype (plural rypes)

  1. A bird, the ptarmigan.
    • 1909, Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News (volume 32, page 426)
      The rypes and our red grouse are identically the same bird, though disease has never been known in the former, and even interbreeding with the red grouse, to the limited extent they are ever likely to do, should do more good than harm.

Etymology 2

Adjective

rype

  1. Obsolete spelling of ripe

Anagrams


Danish

Etymology

From Norwegian rype, from Old Norse rjúpa (ptarmigan).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ryːpə/, [ˈʁyːb̥ə]

Noun

rype c (singular definite rypen, plural indefinite ryper)

  1. ptarmigan (of the genus Lagopus)

Inflection

References


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse rjúpa

Noun

rype f or m (definite singular rypa or rypen, indefinite plural ryper, definite plural rypene)

  1. a grouse or ptarmigan (genus Lagopus)

Derived terms

  • fjellrype
  • lirype

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse rjúpa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²ryːpə/

Noun

rype f (definite singular rypa, indefinite plural ryper, definite plural rypene)

  1. a grouse or ptarmigan (genus Lagopus)

Derived terms

  • fjellrype
  • lirype

References

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