rí

An onomatopoeia.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈriː]

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• Rhymes: -riː

rí

1. (intransitive, literary, folksy) to weep

   Synonym: sír

2. (transitive, literary, folksy) to say something while weeping

With its uncommon transitive forms:

(With verbal prefixes):

• rí in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• ír

From Middle Irish rí, from Old Irish rí,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

• IPA^(key): /ɾˠiː/^[2][3]

rí m (genitive singular rí, nominative plural ríthe)

1. king (male monarch)
2. king (in chess; in cards; in checkers/draughts)

• Superseded spelling of genitive singular: ríogh
• Superseded spelling of dative singular: rígh
• Alternative nominative plural: ríogha
• Alternative genitive plural: ríogh

• banríon

Chess pieces in Irish · fir fichille (layout · text)
rí	banríon	caiseal	easpag	ridire	ceithearnach, fichillín

Playing cards in Irish · cártaí imeartha (layout · text)
aon	dó	trí	ceathair	cúig	sé	seacht
ocht	naoi	deich	cuireata	banríon	rí	fear na gcrúb, buachaill mór

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “rí”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 567
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “rí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “rí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

From Portuguese rir.

rí

1. to laugh

   rí qui istripâ ― to split one's sides laughing (literally, “to laugh until the guts turn over”)

   nê-bôm fazê iou rí ― don't make me laugh

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

From Old Irish rí, from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”), which is derived from *h₃reǵ-.

• IPA^(key): /r͈ʲiː/

rí m (genitive ríg, nominative plural ríg)

1. king
   • c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:

     Boí rí amra for Laignib, .i. Mac Dathó a ainm.

     There was a wonderful king over the Leinstermen; Mac Dathó was his name.

• rígan (“queen”)

• Irish: rí
• Manx: ree
• Scottish Gaelic: rìgh

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”), which is derived from *h₃reǵ-. Cognates include Sanskrit राज् (rāj, “king”), राजन् (rājan), and Latin rēx (“king”).

• IPA^(key): /r͈ʲiː/

rí m (genitive ríg, nominative plural ríg)

1. king
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 85^d7

     amtis forbristi ind ríg, glosses principibus oppressis

Masculine g-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	rí	rígL	ríg
Vocative	rí	rígL	ríga
Accusative	rígN	rígL	ríga
Genitive	ríg	ríg	rígN
Dative	rígL	rígaib	rígaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• ruiri

• rígain (“queen”)

• Middle Irish: rí
  • Irish: rí
  • Manx: ree
  • Scottish Gaelic: rìgh

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language