rink
See also: Rink
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English rink, renk, from Old English rinc (“man, warrior, hero”), from Proto-Germanic *rankiz (“upright man”), from *rankaz (“straight, upright”), from Proto-Indo-European *reǵ- (“straight, direct”).
Cognate with Scots rink, renk (“man, warrior, hero”), Old Saxon rink (“man”), Old Norse rekkr (“a straight or upright man”), Old English ranc (“proud, noble, valiant”). More at rank.
Noun
[edit]rink (plural rinks)
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Middle Scots rink, renk (“course, battlefield”), from Middle French renc, from Old French reng, from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz. Doublet of rank and ring.
Noun
[edit]rink (plural rinks)
- (UK dialectal) A ring; a circle.
- A sheet of ice prepared for playing certain sports, such as hockey or curling.
- We played hockey all winter until the rink melted.
- A surface for roller skating.
- A building housing an ice rink.
- (curling) A team in a competition.
- The Schmirler rink won the Silver Broom.
- 2026 February 15, “GB curlers sweep aside Germany to edge closer to semis”, in BBC[1]:
- However, it was a more chastening day for Britain's women's team, who were unable to repeat their statement win over Canada against the Swedish rink who denied them European gold in November.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]sheet of ice prepared for playing certain sports
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surface for roller skating
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team in curling
Verb
[edit]rink (third-person singular simple present rinks, present participle rinking, simple past and past participle rinked)
- (dated, intransitive, colloquial) To skate on an ice rink.
- 1877, Temple Bar, volume 49, page 479:
- Jack, who has a knack of knowing, seeing, and doing everything from its very beginning, had of course "rinked" on the only compo at that time laid down in London for the purpose, and visited by London's upper twenty.
Anagrams
[edit]Lithuanian
[edit]Verb
[edit]rink
Livonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle Low German rinc.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rink
Declension
[edit]| singular (ikšlu’g) | plural (pǟgiņlu’g) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīv) | rink | rīnkõd |
| genitive (genitīv) | rink | rīnkõd |
| partitive (partitīv) | rinkõ | rīnkidi |
| dative (datīv) | rinkõn | rīnkõdõn |
| instrumental (instrumentāl) | rinkõks | rīnkõdõks |
| illative (illatīv) | rinkõ | rīnkiž |
| inessive (inesīv) | rinksõ | rīnkis |
| elative (elatīv) | rinkstõ | rīnkist |
References
[edit]- Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “rink”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary][2] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English rink. Attested since 1921.
Noun
[edit]rink c
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | rink | rinks |
| definite | rinken | rinkens | |
| plural | indefinite | rinkar | rinkars |
| definite | rinkarna | rinkarnas |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “rink”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “rink”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “rink”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
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