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Rat ‘stage of a journey,’ which is the only sense borne by rasta and  rǫst. rœst, rest,  rasta, ręsta, ‘couch, deathbed,’  rust (see ), ‘rest, repose.’ The common  word is based on a root ras, ‘to remain, dwell,’ which may also be inferred from  razn and  rann, ‘house.’, in the sense of ‘stage,’ comes from the period when the Western Aryans were migrating to Europe; only a wandering tribe could adopt the intervals of reposing and encamping as a measure of distances. Moreover, the older language preserves a few other words as relics of the migratory period;  tageweide,, ‘day's journey, the distance traversed in a day’ ( said of nomadic marches, ‘the length of pasture grazed by cattle in one day’); see. Whether the assumed root ras, ‘to remain, dwell,’ is connected with the root rô in is doubtful.   ,, ‘counsel, advice, deliberation, council,’ from and  rât ( râtes), , ‘counsel, means at hand, store of provisions’; these meanings are still partly preserved by  , , ,. A verbal abstract of,  râten,  râtan, ‘to advise’;  the   rêdan,  râða,  rœ̂dan (to which  to read is akin?),  râdan. Some etymologists have connected the common rêdan, ‘to advise,’ with  reor, ‘to suppose’; in that case the dental of the  verb is  only part of the  stem, which was afterwards joined to the root. Others with equal reason have referred to the root râdh, ‘to carry out a project, put to rights, obtain; to appease,’ and to  raditi, ‘to feel solicitous, trouble oneself about.’ —   ,, ‘to deliberate,’ from the late  râtslagen, the origin of which is obscure. See.  ,, ‘rattle, clapper,’ only, allied to  ratzen, ‘to clatter’; see.   ,, ‘riddle, perplexity,’ from the  râtsal, rœtsel, ,  *râtisal, ;   râdisli,  rêdelse,  raadsel,  rœ̂dels (for *rœ̂desl), , whence the   riddle, the s of the  word being regarded as a sign of the. The formation of the from  corresponds to that of  from, of  from , and of  from. The notion ‘riddle’ was cur - rent among the Teutons from early times; the term was frisahts; in  we find tuncal,, and râtussa, râtissa,  ‘riddle.’   ,, from the  ratte, rate, , rat, rate, ,  rato, , ratta, , ‘rat’ (in  there also appears another variant ratz, ratze, , whence  and Swiss ). It corresponds to ratta,,  rat, rot, ,  rœtt (?),  rat,  rotte. Besides these are found the words  rat,  ratto, and also  radan. The origin of all these cognates is unknown. The class has been derived from  raptus, rapidus; in that case  ratto, ‘quick, nimble,’ would be the primary meaning. The phonetic relations of the words are not sufficiently clear to pronounce a decided opinion.   ,, ‘robbery, spoil,’ from the  roup ( roubes), ,  roub, ;   rôf in nôdrôf. ‘violent wresting,’ roof,, ‘robbery,’  reáf, , ‘robbery, booty,’ allied to  reófan, ‘to break, rend,’  rjúfa,  , ‘to break, rend’ ( used of a breach of contract); these are further connected with  rumpo (Aryan root rup);  the  root lup, ‘to shatter.’ Hence  seems to mean  ‘breach of contract.’? —  ,, ‘to rob, plunder,’ from rouben,  roubôn;  rôbôn,  reáfian, whence  to reave (the   reáf has become obsolete in ),  biraubôn, ‘to plunder, despoil.’ The  cognates passed with two distinct meanings into ;  on the one hand  ruba, ‘robbery,’ rubare, ‘to rob,’  dérober, ‘to steal,’ and on the other  roba, ‘coat, dress,’  robe. The latter are connected with, since by inference from roub and  reáf, ‘robbery, booty, armour, dress,’ the  word had probably acquired the meanings of ‘garments got by plundering, dress (generally).’ See also.  ,, from the  rouch,  rauh (hh), , ‘smoke, steam’; corresponding to  rôk, ,  rook,  rêc (from  *rauki), ,  reek,  reykr, , ‘smoke’;  *rauks (rauki-) is by chance not recorded. The common is connected by gradation with the  root rū̆k, ‘to smoke,’ See.  ,, ‘rough, hairy’; to