rás

From Old Norse rás, from Proto-Germanic *rēsō.

• IPA^(key): [ɹɔɑːs]

rás f (genitive singular rásar, plural rásir or ræsur)

1. path (esp. for sheep)
2. gait
3. way, direction
4. flock of flying birds
5. broadcasting channel

• IPA^(key): /rauːs/

  Rhymes: -auːs

Inherited from Old Norse rás, from Proto-Germanic *rēsō.

rás f (genitive singular rásar, nominative plural rásir)

1. run, running
2. speed
3. flow (of water, etc., also figuratively of events, time, etc.)
4. duct, channel, circuit (for something to run or flow through)
5. channel (TV, radio, Wi-Fi, etc.)

rás n (genitive singular ráss, nominative plural rás)

1. run, sprint (especially in reference to an animal?)
   • 1987, Svava Jakobsdóttir, Gunnlaðar saga, →ISBN, page 149:

     Snaran markaði honum stað og heyra mátti á óslitnu hófatakinu að hann hringsólaði um askinn en hrynjandin rofnaði öðru hvoru af snöggu og óþreyjufullu krafsi líkt og minningin um frjálst rásið um heiðina væri að leita út í trássi við vilja hans.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• sár, árs

• rása (Cois Fharraige)

From Old Norse rás (“a running, race”), from Proto-Germanic *rēsō (“a course”).

rás m (genitive singular rása, nominative plural rásaí)

1. race (contest)

• capall rása
• rásaí

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rás”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Proto-Germanic *rēsō.

rás f

1. race, running
2. course, channel
3. company, host

• Faroese: rás
• French: raz
• Icelandic: rás
• → Middle English: ras, race (through merger with Middle English rees, res < Old English rǣs)
  • English: race
  • Scots: ras, rase, race
    • → Danish: race, ræs
    • → Dutch: race
    • → Swedish: race, rejs
    • → Norwegian: race, res

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