riveling

riveling · noun¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*kerwp-
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*href-
3. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*hrifilingaz“shoe”
4. Old English · inherited fromrifeling
5. Middle English · inherited fromriveling
6. English todayriveling

From Middle English riveling, reviling, from Old English rifeling, hrifeling (“a shoe or sandal of raw hide, a kind of shoe or sandal”), from Proto-Germanic *hrifilingaz (“shoe”), from Proto-Germanic *href-, *hraf- (“covering, shoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerwp-, *krēp- (“cloth, rag, lobe, fold, shoe”). Cognate with Scots rivellin, rilling, rullion (“a shoe of rawhide”), French ravelin ("shoe of rawhide"; < Germanic), Old Norse hriflingr (“leather shoe”), Latin carpisculum (“a kind of shoe, base, groundwork”), Latvian kurpe (“shoe”), Lithuanian kurpe (“one who repairs shoes, cobbler”), Welsh crydd (“shoemaker”).

riveling · noun²

1. Middle English · inherited fromriveling
2. English todayriveling

From Middle English riveling, from rivelen (“to wrinkle”). More at rivel.

riveling · verb³

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Words from the same roots