reys

From Middle English reys (“a journey; military expedition”), from Proto-West Germanic *raisu. Cognate with Danish rejse (“journey, trip, travel”), Dutch reis (“journey, trip, travel”), German Reise (“journey, travel”), Low German Reis (“journey, travel”) North Frisian reyse (“travel, expedition”), Norwegian reise (“trip, journey”), Swedish resa (“trip, journey”). See also reyse.

• enPR: rās, IPA^(key): /ɹeɪs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪs

reys (plural reyses)

1. (obsolete) A journey or a military expedition.

• The Middle English Dictionary

• Srey, Yers, Yser, ryes, syre, yers

• raise

Probably borrowed from Middle Dutch reise, from Old Dutch *reisa, from Proto-West Germanic *raisu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛi̯s(ə)/

reys

1. A journey or a military expedition.
   • c. 1475, The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye:

     And lyghtlye also ther they make her reys

     And also quickly they made their journey there.

• reysen

• English: reys

• “reis, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 August 2018.

reys m

1. obsolete spelling of réis
2. obsolete spelling of reis