Etymology

reys

R1E1Y4S1

Today it means: A journey or a military expedition. Full definition →

Middle English reys ← Proto-West Germanic *raisu
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*raisu
  2. Middle English · inherited fromreys“a journey; military expedition”
  3. English todayreys

From Middle English reys (“a journey; military expedition”), from Proto-West Germanic *raisu. Cognate with Danish rejse (“journey, trip, travel”), Dutch reis (“journey, trip, travel”), German Reise (“journey, travel”), Low German Reis (“journey, travel”) North Frisian reyse (“travel, expedition”), Norwegian reise (“trip, journey”), Swedish resa (“trip, journey”). See also reyse.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.