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Rich — American Heritage Dictionary

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American Heritage Dictionary Editors
YEAR
2022
PUBLISHER
HarperCollins
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historical dictionary
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Rich was powerful—and its ancestor crossed from Celtic into Germanic.

Old English rīce meant strong or powerful. Germanic *rīkja- was borrowed from Celtic *rīg-yo-, in the same king branch that produced royal and rājā.

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*h₃reg̑- → *h₃reg- → *rēg- → *rīg-yo- → *rīkja- → rīce → riche → rich

Etymology: Old English rice, strong and powerful; Old French input

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EDGE 770contextestablished

rich → riche

Present-Day English → Middle English · continuation

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Modern rich continues Middle English riche through English spelling and sound history.
MEANING
Power and wealth broaden across abundance, value, color, flavor, and intensity.
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Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Headword definitions and etymology

Independently supplies the medieval convergence.

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riche → rīce

Middle English → Old English · inheritance

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Middle English riche continues Old English rīce while also receiving French-family influence represented separately.
MEANING
Strong and powerful develop toward wealthy and abundant.
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Etymology: Middle English from Old French and Old English rice

Preserves the additional French input.

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riche → riche

Middle English → Old French · borrowing influence

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Old French riche reinforces Middle English riche alongside the inherited Old English branch.
MEANING
The French wealth adjective converges with English power-and-wealth material.
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American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Etymology: Middle English from Old French and from Old English

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riche → *rīkja-

Old French → Proto-Germanic · borrowing

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Old French riche continues a Germanic *rīkja- family form through historical borrowing.
MEANING
Powerful and wealthy remain linked across the Germanic-to-Romance route.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Calvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Etymology: Old French of Germanic origin

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Supplies the Old English stage and meaning.

rich→Old English rīce
Etymology: Old English rice, strong and powerful · regional
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