riet

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rit/

Noun

riet (plural riete, diminutive rietjie)

1. reed

Derived terms

• rietdak
• rietsuiker

Danish

Verb

riet

1. past participle of ri

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rit/

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

Noun

riet n (plural rieten, diminutive rietje n)

1. reed

Derived terms

• dakriet
• rieten
• rietgors
• rietkat
• rietkraag
• rietsuiker
• rietzanger
• suikerriet

Descendants

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

Anagrams

• tier

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

riet

1. first/third-person singular preterite of raten

Latvian

FWOTD – 3 September 2015

Riet

Riet

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [riɛ̂t]

Verb

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.

Conjugation

Conjugation of riet

	indicative (īstenības izteiksme)					imperative (pavēles izteiksme)
		present (tagadne)	past (pagātne)		future (nākotne)
1st person sg	es	reju	rēju		riešu	—
2nd person sg	tu	rej	rēji		riesi	rej
3rd person sg	viņš, viņa	rej	rēja		ries	lai rej
1st person pl	mēs	rejam	rējām		riesim	riesim
2nd person pl	jūs	rejat	rējāt		riesiet, riesit	rejiet
3rd person pl	viņi, viņas	rej	rēja		ries	lai rej
renarrative (atstāstījuma izteiksme)				participles (divdabji)
present	rejot			present active 1 (adj.)		rejošs
past	esot rējis			present active 2 (adv.)		riedams
future	riešot			present active 3 (adv.)		rejot
imperative	lai rejot			present active 4 (obj.)		rejam
conditional (vēlējuma izteiksme)				past active		rējis
present	rietu			present passive		—
past	būtu rējis			past passive		—
debitive (vajadzības izteiksme)				nominal forms
indicative	(būt) jārej			infinitive (nenoteiksme)		riet
conjunctive 1	esot jārej			negative infinitive		neriet
conjunctive 2	jārejot			verbal noun		riešana

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

• aizriet
• apriet
• atriet
• noriet
• pariet
• pieriet
• sariet
• uzriet

other derived terms:

• rējiens
• rieties

See also

• kaukt
• vau

Luxembourgish

Verb

riet

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

Volapük

Noun

riet (nominative plural riets)

1. wrist

Declension

Declension of riet

	singular	plural
nominative	riet	riets
genitive	rieta	rietas
dative	riete	rietes
accusative	rieti	rietis
vocative 1	o riet!	o riets!
predicative 2	rietu	rietus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only