רײַסן

From Middle High German rizen, from Old High German rīzan (“to scratch”), from a conflation of two similar verbs:.

• Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cut, scratch, tear, sketch an outline”)
• Proto-West Germanic *hrītan, from Proto-Germanic *hrītaną.

Compare German reißen.

רײַסן • (raysn) (past participle געריסן (gerisn))

1. to tear, rip, pull, rend
2. (reflexive) to quarrel
3. (reflexive, with צו (tsu)) to strive, endeavour, aspire to

From a Slavic language; compare Belarusian Русь (Rusʹ, “the historical state of Rus”).

רײַסן • (raysn) ?

1. (archaic, now poetic) Belarus (the country, or the historical region)

   Synonyms: ווײַסרוסלאַנד (vaysrusland), בעלאָרוסיע (belorusye), בעלאַרוס (belarus), מדינת רײַסן (medines raysn)