Danish

Verb

riet

1. past participle of ri

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -it

Noun

riet n ‎(plural rieten, diminutive rietje n)

1. reed

Anagrams

• tier

German

Pronunciation

Verb

riet

1. First-person singular preterite of raten.
2. Third-person singular preterite of raten.

Latvian

Riet

Riet

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *rey-tey, *rey-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- “to shout, to bellow, to bark.” The original diphthong ey is still seen in the present tense forms (reju, etc.). Cognates include Lithuanian ríeti “to bark; to scold,” Old Prussian rīgewings ([rījewinɡs]) “quarreling,” Russian dialectal раять ‎(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), Kurdish reyîn “to bark.”^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [riɛ̂t]

Verb

riet tr., 1st conj., pres. 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 wail and the foxes bark 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

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

other derived terms:'

• rējiens
• rieties

See also

• kaukt
• vau

References

1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “riet”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Luxembourgish

Verb

riet

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

Volapük

Noun

riet ‎(plural riets)

1. wrist

Declension