Meanings
riveling1
plural rivelings · alternative reveling · alternative rivlin
- obsoleteA Scotsman.
riveling2
riveling3
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of rivel
Origin
riveling · noun
- Proto-Indo-European*kerwp-
- Proto-Germanic*href-
- Proto-Germanic*hrifilingaz“shoe”
- Old Englishrifeling
- Middle Englishriveling
- Englishriveling
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”).
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Full word history & related roots →riveling · noun
- Middle Englishriveling
- Englishriveling
From Middle English riveling, from rivelen (“to wrinkle”). More at rivel.
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Full word history & related roots →riveling · verb
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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riveling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/riveling
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