Reif

• IPA^(key): /ʁaɪ̯f/

From Middle High German reif, from Old High German reif (“belt, strap, cord, ring, hoop”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz (“band, cord, strap”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”).

Doublet of nautical Reep (from Low German). Further cognate with Dutch reep, English rope, Icelandic reipi.

Reif m (strong or mixed, genitive Reifes or Reifs, plural Reife or Reifen)

1. (poetic except in Armreif) any ring-shaped piece of jewelry
2. archaic form of Reifen (“hoop, tyre”)

• Armreif
• Reifen

From Middle High German rīfe, from Old High German rīfo.

Reif m (strong, genitive Reifes or Reifs, no plural)

1. frost, hoar frost (cover of minute ice crystals on a surface)
   • Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio, "Es fiel ein Reif in der Frühlingsnacht".

     Es fiel ein Reif in der Frühlingsnacht,
     er fiel auf die bunten Blaublümelein,
     sie sind verwelket, verdorret.

     Hoarfrost fell in a night in spring,
     it fell on the colourful blue blossoms,
     they withered away, dried up.

• Raureif

• “Reif” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• IPA^(key): /raɪ̯f/

Reif m (plural Reif)

1. frost

• reife

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Backformation from the plural, from German Reifen, from Proto-West Germanic *raip (“band, strip”).

Reif f (plural Reifen)

1. tire (rubber)