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rive

Meaningto tear

Common meaning: to tear apart

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√RIP‘break, rive’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 309, p. 741 · scan
  2. Old Norse (Icelandic)rífasource
  3. Middle Englishrivensource
  4. Englishrive‘to tear apart’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old Norse (Icelandic) rífa ‘to tear’.

Roots

  • rífa Old Norse (Icelandic) “to tear”

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