Reet

Reet

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret or Greta

Borrowed from Low German Reet, from Middle Low German rêt, from Old Saxon hriod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud.

• IPA^(key): /ʁeːt/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Homophones: red (general), rät (especially northern and eastern regions)

Reet n (strong, genitive Reets or Reetes, no plural)

1. alternative form of Ried
   1. (Northern Germany) reed as vegetation
   2. (now also elsewhere) reed as thatching

• The spread of this form in the context of thatching is due to the fact that the practice is most common in Northern Germany.

• “Reet”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Reet” in Duden online