Reif

• IPA^(key): /ʁaɪ̯f/

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• Homophone: reif

From Middle High German rīf(e), from Old High German rīfo, hrīfo, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīpō. Cognate with Dutch rijp. Likely related with (and possibly from a stem variant of) Proto-Germanic *hrīmô, whence English rime.

Reif m (strong, genitive Reifs or Reifes, no plural)

1. frost, hoar frost (cover of minute ice crystals on a surface)
   • Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio, "Es fiel ein Reif in der Frühlingsnacht".

     Es fiel ein Reif in der Frühlingsnacht,
     er fiel auf die bunten Blaublümelein,
     sie sind verwelket, verdorret.

     Hoarfrost fell in a night in spring,
     it fell on the colourful blue blossoms,
     they withered away, dried up.

From Middle High German reif, from Old High German reif (“belt, strap, cord, ring, hoop”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz (“band, cord, strap”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós.

Doublet of nautical Reep (from Low German). Further cognate with Dutch reep, English rope, Icelandic reipi.

Reif m (strong or mixed, genitive Reifs or Reifes, plural Reife or Reifen)

1. (chiefly in compounds, otherwise higher register) any ring-shaped piece of jewelry
2. archaic form of Reifen (“hoop, tyre”)

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

• IPA^(key): /raɪ̯f/

Reif m (plural Reif)

1. frost

• reife

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Reif”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

Backformation from the plural, from German Reifen, from Proto-West Germanic *raip (“band, strip”).

Reif f (plural Reifen)

1. tire (rubber)