Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. · The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. · Ellipsis of rye bread. · Ellipsis of rye whiskey, whiskey made mainly or wholly from rye grain.
Inherited from Middle English rye, rie, from Old English ryġe, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz. Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Rocken, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian рожь (rožʹ) and Latvian rudzi.
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