rimaye

Borrowed from French rimaye.

rimaye (plural rimayes)

1. (geology) a crevasse at the upper end of a mountain glacier.

• bergshrund

From Franco-Provençal (Savoy) rimaye (“split, glacier crevasse”), from Latin rimari (“crack, split, open, search”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.maj/, /ʁi.mɛ/

rimaye m (plural rimayes)

1. (geology) a crevasse at the upper end of a mountain glacier

• → Catalan: rimaia
• → English: rimaye

• “rimaye”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

rīmā̀yē

1. plural of rimi