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Ris  root wrī̆þ, ‘to turn,’ which has been reserved in to writhe, as well as in , ‘packing-stick’ ( reitel for an earlier *wreitel), Other etymologists connect the word with  ῥίζα (from *ϝρισδα?), ‘root.’ Yet  rîho (for earlier *wrîho),  , is probably most closely connected with the cognates of , so that  *wristi- would represent wrihsti-, and thus imply an Aryan root wrī̆k.   ,, ‘cleft, gap, schism,’ from riȥ, , ‘cleft’; the corresponding  riȥ, , in contrast to the  and  which are connected with the  , preserves the earlier meaning ‘letter’ ( writs, ‘stroke, point’), which connects it with  wrîtan, ‘to write, draw’ (see ). , moreover,, in the earlier sense of ‘sketch.’   ,, ‘ride,’ first occurs in early ; a derivative of.   ,, ‘fever,’ from the  rite, ritte,  rito, ritto, , for an earlier *hriþjo, ‘fever’; so too  hriþa, , ‘fever’; allied to  rîdon,  rîden, ‘to shiver,’  hriþian, ‘to shiver in a fever,’  rîdo, ‘shivering,’  hriþ, ‘storm.’ The root hrī̆þ, pre- krī̆t, ‘to move wildly,’ appears also in  crith, ‘shivering.’   ,, ‘chevalier, knight,’ from ritter, riter, , ‘horseman, knight’ (also rîtœre); the form with tt is due to a confusion with  ritto, ‘horseman’ (from ridjo). See and.   ,, ‘rift, rent,’ from riz ( ritzes), , ‘rift, wound,’ like , from  ritzen, ‘to scratch, wound,’  rizzen, rizzân; allied to.   ,, ‘sea-dog, seal,’ borrowed from , like most words with a medial bb (, , &c.);   rob, , ‘sea-dog, seal’; the   kobbi, similar in sound (akin to kópr, ‘young sea-dog’), is not allied. The word,  *silha- (  seolh,  seal,  sëlah,  selr) became obsolete in  at an early period. The source and history of the term is obscure.    (1.),, ‘ray, thornback,’ from ruche;  the   roch, rog,  reohha, *rohha, whence  reihe, rouhe; also  roach, rocke? ( ray is derived from raja, whence also  raja,  raie).

 (2.),, ‘castle’ (at chess), from the   roch, ; borrowed with chess-playing from the  (roc, whence also  and  rook). The ultimate source is rukh, rokh, ‘archer mounted on an elephant’ (at chess),. <section end="Roche" /> <section begin="röcheln" /> ,, ‘to rattle,’ from rücheln, rüheln, ‘to neigh, roar, rattle’; allied to  rohôn,  rohen, ‘to grunt, roar’;   rogchelen, ‘to spit out.’ The  root ruh, ruhh, preserved in these words, has been connected with the  root ryk (from rûk);   rykati, ryknąti, ‘to roar’ ( ŕūkt), to which has to be added perhaps the - root rug in rugire, ‘to roar,’ ὀρυγμός, ‘roaring.’ <section end="röcheln" /> <section begin="Rock" /> ,, ‘coat, robe, petticoat,’ from roc ( rockes),  rocch, , ‘outer garment, coat’; corresponding to the   rok,  rok,  rocc,  rokkr; the implied  *rukka- is wanting. From the cognates is derived the  class,  rochet, ‘surplice’ ( roccus, ‘coat’), which again passed into  (rochet). The early history of the cognates is obscure; allied to ?. <section end="Rock" /> <section begin="Rocken" /> ,, ‘distaff,’ from the  rocke,  roccho, ; common to  in the same sense;   rok, rocken,  *rocca,  rocke,  rock,  rokkr;  *rukka is by chance not recorded. The word passed into ;   rocca, ‘distaff.’ It may be doubted whether  and  are derived from an old root rak, ‘to spin,’ which does not occur elsewhere. At any rate, is not connected with the   wocken, since the cognates of, according to the  and  terms, have not lost an initial w. <section end="Rocken" /> ,, ‘to root out,’ from roden, the  and  variant of riuten, ‘to root out.’ <section begin="Rodomontade" /> ,, ‘boasting, bluster, swaggering,’ from the  rodomontade,  rodomondata,  Rodomonte is derived from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and is the name of a boastful Moorish hero; it first appears in Boiardo's Orlando Innamorata, and means  ‘roller of mountains, one who boasts that he can roll away mountains.’ <section end="Rodomontade" /> <section begin="Rogen" /> ,, ‘roe, spawn,’ from the  rogen,  rogan, , for an earlier *hrogan, mm.; also  roge,  rogo, ; corresponding to the   hrogn,  ,  *hrogn,  roan, <section end="Rogen" />