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 bezt / und bláum himni
     kenninafn, / svát konungr eigi
     es Rǫgnvaldr, / reiðar stjóri, […]

     I know that best / nickname
     under the blue sky / that a king might have
     that Rǫgnvaldr, / the steerer of the carriage […]

• 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