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Rei  reiger, ; *reiar, *reijar, are by chance not recorded;   hreiera,  reiger,  hrâgra,, ‘heron.’  heigir and  heiger, ‘heron,’ are abnormal forms.   ,, ‘rhyme,’ from rîm, , ‘verse, line.’ To the assonant  rîm, , this sense is unknown; it signifies ‘row, succession, number,’ and these meanings are attached to the corresponding words in the other  ;   unrîm, ‘innumerable quantity,’  rîm, ‘number.’ From these  words  rîm, ‘verse,’ must be dissociated, and connected rather with  rhythmus (versus rhythmicus). The word acquired the sense of  rîme, ‘rhyme,’ in the time of Opitz. In the period rîme binden was used for, ‘to rhyme,’ and  by the Meistersingers for. rhyme ( rîme, ‘rhymed poem, poem, rhyme’) is also borrowed from rime.  , ‘pure, clean, downright,’ from the   reine,  reini, older hreini, ; corresponding to  hrains,  hreinn,  hrêni, North  rian, ‘pure’; in  and, correspondences are wanting. The sense (for which in  and Swiss  is mostly used) is not found in the ; e.g., in - and Swiss it signifies only ‘fine ground, sifted’ (of flour, sand, &c.), and belongs therefore to the  root hrī̆, pre- krī̆, krei, ‘to winnow, sift,’ whence  rîtara (see ),  cri-brum,  κρί-νειν (for the  suffix -ni- see  and ). Hence ‘sifted’ may be assumed as the sense of ;   hrêncurni, ‘wheat.’   (1.),, ‘rice,’ from the  rîs,  and , which was borrowed from the   and  rîso-,  and n,;   riso,  riz (whence also  rice,  rijst); the latter is usually traced to  and  ὄρῦζον (also ὄρυζα), ‘rice,’ which is derived from  vrîhi through an Iran. medium.

 (2.), ‘twig, sprout,’ from rîs,  rîs, earlier hris,, ‘branch’; corresponding to  rijs,  hrîs,  hrîs, , ‘twig, branch’;  *hreis, , is wanting. The cognates (, ‘that which shakes, lives’) accord well with  hrisjan, ‘to shake,’  hrissian,  hrissan, ‘to tremble, quake.’ —   ', ',, ‘small twigs, brushwood,’ from  rîsech,  rîsach, ; the collective of  ( hrîsa-).   ,, ‘journey, travel, voyage,’ from reise, , ‘departure, march, journey, military expedition,’  reisa, , ‘departure’; allied to  rîsan,  rîsen, ‘to mount, fall,’  rîsan, ‘to rise,’  rîsan,  to rise, and the   ur-reisan. The idea of vertical, and of upward motion, thus belongs every where to the root rī̆s; therefore  is  ‘departure.’ Further,  and  reisen is a derivative of the ;  also with the root rī̆s,  to raise and (by the change of s into r) to rear.   ,, ‘trooper, horseman,’ from reiec, , ‘mounted.’ —   ,, ‘horsemen,’ usually connected with reise, ‘military expedition,’ yet it may be also a derivative of rîten, ‘to ride,’ since  rîso, ‘horseman,’ occurs (rîþtan- gives rîssan-, rîsan-).   ,, ‘to tear, drag; sketch,’ from rîȥen,  rîȥan, earlier *wrîȥan, ‘to tear, tear in pieces, scratch, write’; corresponding to  wrftan, ‘to tear in pieces, wound, write,’  wrîtan,  to write,  ríta, ‘to write’;  *wreitan, ‘to rend, write,’ is wanting, but is implied by  writs, ‘streak, point.’ The various meanings of the cognates are explained by the manner in which runes were written or scratched on beech twigs. The root writ, which has been preserved also in , , , and , has not yet been found in the non- languages. <section end="reißen" /> ,, ‘to ride,’ from rîten,  rîtan, ‘to move on, set out, drive, ride’; corresponding to  rijden, ‘to ride, drive, skate,’  rîdan,  to ride,  ríða, ‘to ride, travel; swing, hover.’ These words are based on the common  rîdan, with the general sense of continued motion. This, as well as the fact that in there is no  used exclusively for ‘to ride,’ makes it probable that the art of riding is comparatively recent. Besides, in the allied languages no single term expresses this idea. It is also known that the art among the Greeks appears after the time of Homer, and that it was still unknown to the Indians of the Rig-Veda. It is true that the Teutons are known to us as horsemen from their earliest appearance in history, but the