Rheydt
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Dutch Reithe, of uncertain origin. Possibly a variant of rēda (also attested with th and dh and underlying in several placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *raidu (whence English road). Another possibility would be relation with roden (“to make arable”), but Old High German riutī (as in Bayreuth etc.) cannot be the source and a fitting cognate does not seem to exist (the local equivalent being -rath).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ʁaɪ̯t/
- Homophones: reit, reiht
Proper noun
[edit]Rheydt n (proper noun, genitive Rheydts or (optionally with an article) Rheydt)
- A former town, now a quarter of Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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- German terms derived from Old Dutch
- German terms with unknown etymologies
- German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- German 1-syllable words
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- German proper nouns
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- de:Historical settlements
- de:Places in North Rhine-Westphalia
- de:Places in Germany