Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To cover (something) with rime (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1 or etymology 1, noun sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost. · To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat. · Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.
Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1). · A film or slimy coating. · White hair as an indication of old age. · Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
The noun is derived from Middle English rim, rime, rym, ryme (“hoar frost; rime”), from Old English hrīm (“frost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrīm (“rime; hoar frost”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą (North Germanic), *hrīmaz, *hrīmô (“rime; hoar frost”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to graze, touch; to streak”). The verb is derived from the noun. (The Old English equivalent, which did not survive into modern English, was behrīman.) Cognates * Middle Dutch riim, rijm, rīm (modern Dutch rijm (“hoar frost”)) * Old Danish *rim (only in rimfrost (“rime frost”); modern Danish rim (“hoar frost”)) * Old French rime, rimee (Middle French rime, rimee (“hoar frost”), Anglo-Norman rime, rimee (“hoar frost”)) * Old High German rīm (Middle High German rīm, Bavarian Reim (“dew; fog; light frost”) (dialectal)) * Old Norse hrím (Icelandic hrím, Norwegian rim (“hoar frost”)) * Old Saxon hrīm * Old Swedish *riim, *rim (only in rimfrost (“rime frost”); modern Swedish rim) * West Frisian rime, rym
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*krey-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionrimenm
- Inherited-form mentionhrīmang · frost
- Inherited-form mention*hrīmgmw-pro · rime; hoar frost
- Inherited-form mention*hrīmągem-pro
- Derivation mention*krey-ine-pro · to graze, touch; to streak
- Cognate mentionriimdum
- Cognate mentionrijmnl · hoar frost
- Cognate mention*rimgmq-oda
- Cognate mentionrimda · hoar frost
- Cognate mentionrimefro
- Cognate mentionrimefrm
- Cognate mentionrīmgoh
- Cognate mentionrīmgmh
- Cognate mentionReimbar · dew; fog; light frost
- Cognate mentionhrímnon
- Cognate mentionhrímis
- Cognate mentionrimno · hoar frost
- Cognate mentionhrīmosx
- Cognate mention*riimgmq-osw
- Cognate mentionrimsv
- Cognate mentionrimefy
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"To cover (something) with rime (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1 or etymology 1, noun sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost.",
"To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat.",
"Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost."
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