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RineEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From the German surname, variant of Rein, Rhine, Rhein.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗rineEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English rinen, from Old English hrīnan, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīnan, from Proto-Germanic *hrīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to strip, touch”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗rineEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English rune, from Old English ryne (“a course, run, running, orbit, a flow, flux, period of time, cycle, luster, expanse, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *runiz (“course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to cause to move, grow”). Cognate with German Ronne (“a channel”), Icelandic ryne (“a flow, stream”). See runnel.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗rineEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Variation of rind.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- RineEnglish · e-38699-6624
Rine, rīn, v.t. to touch.—n. the same as Rind. [A.S. hrínan; Ice. hrína, to hurt.]
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Rine, rīn, n. (prov.) a ditch or water-course.—Also Rhine, Rone, Rune. [A.S. ryne, a run, flow—rinnan, to run; Ger. ronne, a channel.]
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A bound English word element used in formations involving discourse or expression and in names of doctrines, theories, sciences, and fields of study.
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mussel
A bivalve mollusk whose English history runs through Middle English muscle and Old English muscelle into the same Latin mouse family as muscle.
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person associated with an activity or doctrine
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-logy
bound element forming nouns of expression, discourse, doctrine, theory, science, or study
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mussel
a marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk
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Does -logy simply mean “the study of”?
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-logy never simply meant “the study of.”
The bound form’s recorded range includes expression and discourse as well as doctrine, theory, science, and study. Its trail reaches Greek logos—word, speech, account, reckoning, reason—rather than a prehistoric word meaning “science.”
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