raie
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See also: râie
Pronunciation
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)
- (agriculture) ridge between furrows, balk (an unplowed strip of land)
- une raie de champ ― a field balk
- 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
- scratch, mark
- cleft (between the buttocks)
- stripe
- marbre marqué de raies noires ― marble marked with black lines
- parting (in hair)
- porter la raie au milieu, de côté ― have one’s hair parted in the middle, on the side
Etymology 2
Noun
raie f (plural raies)
Derived terms
- grande raie
- raie baveuse
- raie-capucin
Etymology 3
Inflected forms.
Verb
raie
- inflection of rayer:
Further reading
- “raie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
raie on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
References
- 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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