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raie

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See also: râie

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɛ/
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Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French roie, from a Vulgar Latin riga, probably from Gaulish *rica (“furrow”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸrikā (“furrow”) (compare Old Irish rech).[1]

Noun

raie f (plural raies)

  1. (agriculture) ridge between furrows, balk (an unplowed strip of land)
    une raie de champ ― a field balk
  2. line
    J’ai fait une raie. ― I drew a line.
    tracer une raie au crayon, à la plume ― draw a line with a pencil, a quill
  3. scratch, mark
  4. cleft (between the buttocks)
  5. stripe
    marbre marqué de raies noires ― marble marked with black lines
  6. parting (in hair)
    porter la raie au milieu, de côté ― have one’s hair parted in the middle, on the side

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin raia.

Noun

raie f (plural raies)

  1. (ichthyology) ray
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Inflected forms.

Verb

raie

  1. inflection of rayer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

References

  1. [1]
    Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages *140-141

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