Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped. · Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip. · The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground. · The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
To form into a ridge. · To extend in ridges.
From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hryċġ (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrugi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krewk-, *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots rig (“back, spine, ridge”), North Frisian reg (“back”), West Frisian rêch (“back”), Dutch rug (“back, ridge”), German Rücken (“back, ridge”), Swedish rygg (“back, spine, ridge”), Icelandic hryggur (“spine”). Cognate to Albanian kërrus (“to bend one's back”) and kurriz (“back”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionriggeenm
- Inherited-form mentionhryċġang · back, spine, ridge, elevated surface
- Inherited-form mention*hrugigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*hrugjazgem-pro · back
- Derivation mention*(s)krewk-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionrigsco · back, spine, ridge
- Cognate mentionregfrr · back
- Cognate mentionrêchfy · back
- Cognate mentionrugnl · back, ridge
- Cognate mentionRückende · back, ridge
- Cognate mentionryggsv · back, spine, ridge
- Cognate mentionhrygguris · spine
- Cognate mentionkërrussq · to bend one's back
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