rine

See also: Rine and riñe

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English rinen, from Old English 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, Britain dialectal) To concern; affect.
  3. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To pertain to; fall to.
  4. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To tend to a certain effect or outcome.
Derived terms

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 *er(e)- (“to cause to move, grow”). Cognate with German Ronne (“a channel”), Icelandic ryne (“a flow, stream”). See runnel.

Alternative forms

Noun

rine (plural rines)

  1. (Britain dialectal) A watercourse or ditch.

Etymology 3

Variation of rind.

Noun

rine (plural rines)

  1. Alternative form of rind

Anagrams

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *rinē.

Noun

riṇe

  1. snow or rime that collects on trees and structures

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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