Rain

See also: rain, ràin, and räin

Estonian

Etymology

Short form of Rainer and other Germanic compound given names with the first element meaning "counsel".

Proper noun

Rain

1. a male given name.

Related terms

• Rein

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German

Etymology

Ein Rain

From Middle High German rein, which also appears in reinkurni, reinifano (“tansy”), Modern German Rainfarn, for this plant’s growing as field mark, from Old High German rein (“wall, baulk, ridge”), from Proto-Germanic *rainō, cognate with Icelandic rein, Swedish ren, English rean (“ridge, furrow, gutter”), Lithuanian raivė̃ (“furrow”), Latvian rieva (“furrow”), Latin rīma (“slit”), all perhaps related to Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- and the antecedents of Reihe, English row, as well as to reif, English ripe.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯n

Noun

Rain m (genitive Rains, plural Raine)

1. edge path (the space between two fields)
2. (Switzerland) (small) slope, incline

Derived terms

• anrainen
• Anrainer
• Berain

References

• Template:R:Pfeifer

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) Rein
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) Ragn

Proper noun

Rain m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) the Rhine