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IPA^(key): /ʁil/

la Rille f

Obsolete spelling of Risle. (river in Normandie)

Cassini map on Géoportail, Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière, 2019

Borrowed from German Low German Rille, from Middle Low German *rille, probably an old diminutive of rīde (“little stream”), itself from Proto-Germanic *rīþaz (“river”), in spite of late attestations. Compare Dutch ril, English rill.^[1]

IPA^(key): /ˈʁɪlə/

Rille f (genitive Rille, plural Rillen)

groove (narrow channel; often one of several parallel ones)
Synonym: Riefe

Declension of Rille [feminine]

^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Rille”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

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