rean

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*rey-“to cut, tear, scratch”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*rainō“baulk, ridge”
3. Old Norse · derived fromrein“a strip of land”
4. Middle English · inherited fromrene
5. English todayrean

From Middle English rene, rein (“strip of land forming a boundary; furrow; barrier; embankment”), from Old Norse rein (“a strip of land”), from Proto-Germanic *rainō (“baulk, ridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to cut, tear, scratch”). Related to Icelandic rein, Danish ren, Dutch rein, reen (“berm”), German Rain (“narrow strip of land between two fields”).

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