Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic]. · A former town in the Rice Valley, San Bernardino County, California. · An unincorporated community in Cloud County, Kansas. · A city in Benton County, Minnesota.
* As a Welsh surname, borrowed from Welsh Rhys, an Anglicization. Compare Reese, Freese, Price, and Preece. * As an English surname, from Old English hris (“brushwood, shrubbery”). * Also as an English surname, from a nickname through Middle English and Anglo-Norman from French ris (“smile, laughter”). * Also as an occupational English surname, from the noun rice. * As as German surname, Americanized from Reis (“shoot, twig”), related to the Old English word above. Compare Ries.
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