Rain

See also: rain, ràin, and räin

English

Proper noun

Rain

1. A female given name.

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Estonian

Etymology

Short form of Rainer and other Germanic compound given names with the first element meaning "counsel".

Proper noun

Rain

1. a male given name.

Related terms

• Rein

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German

Ein Rain

Alternative forms

• Rein (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German rein, which also appears in reinkurni, reinifano (“tansy”), Modern German Rainfarn, for this plant’s growing as field mark, from Old High German rein (“wall, baulk, ridge”), from Proto-Germanic *rainō, cognate with Icelandic rein, Swedish ren, English rean (“ridge, furrow, gutter”), Lithuanian raivė̃ (“furrow”), Latvian rieva (“furrow”), Latin rīma (“slit”), all perhaps related to Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- and the antecedents of Reihe, English row, as well as to reif, English ripe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁaɪ̯n/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯n
• Homophones: rein, Rhein

Noun

Rain m (strong, genitive Rains or Raines, plural Raine)

1. edgepath (the space between two fields)
2. (Switzerland) small slope, incline

Declension

Declension of Rain [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Rain	die	Raine
genitive	eines	des	Rains, Raines	der	Raine
dative	einem	dem	Rain, Raine1	den	Rainen
accusative	einen	den	Rain	die	Raine

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• anrainen
• Anrainer
• Berain

Related terms

• Rainfarn, Rainhecke, Rainkohl, Rainpflanze, Rainstreifen
• Ackerrain, Feldrain, Grasrain, Grenzrain, Waldrain, Wegrain, Wiesenrain

References

• Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Rain”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

Further reading

• “Rain” in Duden online
• “Rain” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Rain” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• Rein (Sursilvan)
• Ragn (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Proper noun

Rain m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) the Rhine (a river in Western Europe)