Rhine

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From Middle English Rine, Ryne, from Old English Rīn (“the Rhine”), from Middle High German and Old High German Rīn, from Proto-West Germanic *Rīn, from Proto-Germanic *Rīnaz, from Gaulish Rēnos, from a Pre-Celtic or Proto-Celtic *reinos; one of a class of river names built from Proto-Indo-European *h3reyH- (“to move, flow, run”). Cognate with Old High German Rīn ("the Rhine"; > German Rhein), Old Norse Rín (“the Rhine”), Dutch Rijn (“the Rhine”). Related also to Latin rivus ("river"), in Celtic with an -n- suffix as in Old Irish rīan (“run”) (more at run). The spelling with Rh- is due to the influence of Ancient Greek Ῥῆνος (Rhênos) (via French Rhin).

From Old English ryne. See run.

79 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: Ryn — river that flows through Europe
• Albanian: Rhein — river that flows through Europe
• Alsatian Alemannic German: Rhy (Mulhouse) — river that flows through Europe
• Alsatian Alemannic German: Rhin — river that flows through Europe
• Arabic: نَهْر اَلرَّايْن (nahr ar-rayn) — river that flows through Europe
• Armenian: Հռենոս (Hṙenos) — river that flows through Europe
• Azerbaijani: Reyn — river that flows through Europe
• Basque: Rhin — river that flows through Europe
• Belarusian: Рэйн (Rejn) — river that flows through Europe
• Bulgarian: Рейн (Rejn) — river that flows through Europe
• Catalan: Rin — river that flows through Europe
• Chinese Mandarin: 萊茵河 /莱茵河 (Láiyīn hé) — river that flows through Europe
• Czech: Rýn — river that flows through Europe
• Danish: Rhinen — river that flows through Europe
• Dutch: Rijn — river that flows through Europe
• Esperanto: Rejno — river that flows through Europe
• Estonian: Rein — river that flows through Europe
• Faroese: Rín — river that flows through Europe
• Finnish: Rein — river that flows through Europe
• French: Rhin — river that flows through Europe
• Old French: Rin — river that flows through Europe
• Galician: Rin — river that flows through Europe
• Georgian: რაინი (raini) — river that flows through Europe
• German: Rhein — river that flows through Europe
• Bavarian German: Rhein — river that flows through Europe
• Central Franconian: Rhing — river that flows through Europe
• German: Rhoi — river that flows through Europe
• Swabian: Rei — river that flows through Europe
• Greek: Ρήνος (Rínos) — river that flows through Europe
• Ancient Greek: Ῥῆνος (Rhênos) — river that flows through Europe
• Hebrew: ריין — river that flows through Europe
• Hindi: राइन (rāin) — river that flows through Europe
• Hungarian: Rajna — river that flows through Europe
• Icelandic: Rín — river that flows through Europe
• Indonesian: Rhein — river that flows through Europe
• Irish: Réin — river that flows through Europe
• Italian: Reno — river that flows through Europe
• Japanese: ライン川 (Rain-gawa) — river that flows through Europe
• Kazakh: Рейн — river that flows through Europe
• Korean: 라인 강 — river that flows through Europe
• Kyrgyz: Рейн (Reyn) — river that flows through Europe
• Lao: ໄຣນ໌ (rain) — river that flows through Europe
• Lao: ແມ່ນ້ໍາໄຣນ໌ (mǣ nam rain) — river that flows through Europe
• Latin: Rhēnus — river that flows through Europe
• Latvian: Reina — river that flows through Europe
• Limburgish: Rien — river that flows through Europe
• Lithuanian: Reinas — river that flows through Europe
• Luxembourgish: Rhäin — river that flows through Europe
• Macedonian: Ра́јна (Rájna) — river that flows through Europe
• Malay: Rhine — river that flows through Europe
• Norwegian Bokmål: Rhinen — river that flows through Europe
• Norwegian Nynorsk: Rhinen — river that flows through Europe
• Occitan: Ren — river that flows through Europe
• Old English: Rīn — river that flows through Europe
• Old Norse: Rín — river that flows through Europe
• Persian: راین (râyn) — river that flows through Europe
• Polish: Ren — river that flows through Europe
• Portuguese: Reno — river that flows through Europe
• Romanian: Rin — river that flows through Europe
• Romansh: Rain — river that flows through Europe
• Romansh: Rein — river that flows through Europe
• Russian: Рейн (Rejn) — river that flows through Europe
• Serbo-Croatian: Рајна — river that flows through Europe
• Serbo-Croatian: Rajna — river that flows through Europe
• Slovak: Rýn — river that flows through Europe
• Slovene: Ren — river that flows through Europe
• Lower Sorbian: Ryn — river that flows through Europe
• Upper Sorbian: Ryn — river that flows through Europe
• Spanish: Rin — river that flows through Europe
• Swedish: Rhen — river that flows through Europe
• Tajik: Рейн (Reyn) — river that flows through Europe
• Thai: ไรน์ (rái) — river that flows through Europe
• Thai: แม่น้ําไรน์ — river that flows through Europe
• Turkish: Ren — river that flows through Europe
• Turkmen: Reýn — river that flows through Europe
• Ukrainian: Рейн (Rejn) — river that flows through Europe
• Uzbek: Reyn — river that flows through Europe
• Welsh: Rhein — river that flows through Europe
• Yiddish: ריין (reyn) — river that flows through Europe