rye – English noun declension

English noun forms of rye

Noun: rye
Singularrye
Pluralryes

Sample Sentences

  • They bought a sack of rye and a sack of wheat with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking.
  • This field will be planted to rye next spring.
  • Customer: A tuna sandwich, please. Waiter: Sure, hon. You want that on white, wheat, or rye?
  • He likes any whiskey, but his favorite is rye.
  • “Gimme a shot of rye.” The whiskey stung his throat hot and fragrant. [1925, John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, 2nd section, page 146:]
  • I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter. [1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 159:]
  • Them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey ’n rye/Singin’, "This’ll be the day that I die." [1971, “American Pie”, in American Pie, performed by Don McLean:]
  • I'll have a rye, neat, please.
  • It concerns the gnomelike quality of the average American at a party. I have been to many parties where staid American business men have been transformed by a few ryes or bourbons into unpredictable gremlins out for adventure. [1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 17:]
  • And if it [vndeꝛ the peꝛch] be grene ſhe engenderith the Ry. The condicion of this euell is this, it wil ariſe in the hede and make the hede to ſwell, ⁊ the iyen all glaymous, and dyrke, and bot it haue helpe: it will downe in to the legges, and maake the legges to rancle, and if it goo fro the legges in to the hede a gayne, thi hawke is bot looſt. [1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans:]
  • Of all the diseases that belongs to these Hawkes, there bee onely three that they bee most subiect vnto, which is the Rye, the Crampe, and the Craye. [1618, Symon Latham, Latham's Falconry:]
  • The Rye is my uncle, Hans Breitmann, Mr. Leland, whom all the Romanies know. His gipsy lore was great; […] [1893, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, To Gipsyland, page 2:]

Etymology

1. Inherited from Middle English rye, rie, from Old English ryġe, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz.
2. Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Rocken, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian рожь (rožʹ) and Latvian rudzi. See: Middle English Nouns 'rye', Middle English Nouns 'rye', Old English Nouns 'ryġe', German Nouns 'Roggen', Old Norse Nouns 'rugr', Danish Nouns 'rug', Swedish Nouns 'råg', Russian Nouns 'рожь', Latvian Nouns 'rudzi'.

Verbs referencing "rye"

Danish Nouns rug, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns rug, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns rug, Russian Nouns рожь, Faroese Nouns rugur, Icelandic Nouns rúgur, Swedish Nouns råg, Dutch Nouns rogge, Latvian Nouns rudzi, Finnish Nouns raiheinä.