reið

• IPA^(key): /reiːð/

  Rhymes: -eiːð

From Old Norse reið, from Proto-Germanic *raidō.

reið f (genitive singular reiðar, nominative plural reiðir)

1. ride, riding
2. (vulgar) sexual intercourse; fuck, screw
3. (archaic) chariot
4. the R-rune (ᚱ)

• bifreið
• eimreið
• sjálfrennireið

reið

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of ríða

From Proto-Norse *ᚱᚨᛁᛞᚢ (*raidu), Proto-Germanic *raidō.

reið f

1. ride, riding
2. vehicle, carriage, chariot
   • 9th c., Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, Ynglingatal, verse 27:

     Þat veitk bazt · und blǫ́um himni
     kenninafn, · svát konungr eigi
     es Rǫgnvaldr, · reiðar stjóri,
     heiðum hǫ́r · of heitinn es.

     I know that nickname to be the best under the blue sky which a king might have, that Rǫgnvaldr, steerer of the chariot, is called ‘high with honours’.

• váfreið (“hover-chariot”)

• reiða
• ríða

• Icelandic: reið
• Norwegian Nynorsk: rei, reid

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “reið”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 333; also available at the Internet Archive