riet

From Dutch riet, from Middle Dutch riet, from Old Dutch riet, ried, *riod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud (“reed”).

• IPA^(key): /rit/

riet (plural riete, diminutive rietjie)

1. reed

• rietdak
• rietsuiker

riet

1. past participle of ri

From Middle Dutch riet, from Old Dutch riet, ried, *riod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud (“reed”).

• IPA^(key): /rit/

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• Hyphenation: riet
• Rhymes: -it
• Homophone: Ried

riet n (plural rieten, diminutive rietje n)

1. reed

• Note that the diminutive rietje has meanings specific to it.

• Afrikaans: riet
• Negerhollands: ried
• → Papiamentu: rit, riet

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riet

1. first/third-person singular preterite of raten

From Proto-Baltic *rey-tey, *rey-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *rey-. The original diphthong ey is still seen in the present tense forms (reju, etc.). Cognates include Lithuanian ri̇́eti (“to bark; to scold”), Old Prussian rīgewings (/⁠rījewinɡs⁠/, “quarreling”), Russian dialectal ра́ять (rájatʹ, “to make noise”), Old High German rērēn, Middle High German rēren (“to bleat, to bellow, to shout”), German röhren, Sanskrit रायति (rāyati, “to bark”), Ossetian рӕйын (ræjyn), рӕйун (ræjun), Northern Kurdish reyîn (“to bark”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [riɛ̂t]

riet (transitive, 1st conjugation, present reju, rej, rej, past rēju)

1. (of animals, especially dogs) to bark (to produce short, loud noises with the vocal organs)

   Nakts vidū suņi sāka neganti riet. ― In the middle of the night, the dogs started barking fiercely.

   Naktīs varēja dzirdēt vilkus gaudojam un lapsas rejam māju tuvumā. ― At night, one could hear the wolves wailing and the foxes barking near the house.

2. (of machine guns) to bark (to shoot rapidly)

   Kauca lielgabali, rēja ložmetēji, mežs stenēja. ― The cannons howled, the machine guns barked, the forest groaned.

3. (of people) to bark (to talk loud, usually angrily)

   Lizalka, mūžam ar visu neapmierināta, rēja uz cilvēkiem gluži kā suns. ― Lizalka, eternally dissatisfied with everything, barked at people just like a dog.

prefixed verbs:

other derived terms:

• rējiens
• rieties

• kaukt
• vau

riet

1. inflection of rieden:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular/plural imperative

riet (nominative plural riets)

1. wrist