Brike vs Rike - What's the difference?
brike | rike |
(historical) sovereignty, dominion, authority
* {{quote-book
, year=1820
, year_published=2007
, edition=Digitized
, author=Arthur Taylor
, title=The Glory of Regality
(historical) The territory over which authority extends, a kingdom, an earldom, a diocese, district, city, and so forth.
* {{quote-book
, year=1823
, year_published=2007
, edition=Digitized
, editor=David Scot
, author=Alexander Murray
, title=History of the European Languages
* {{quote-book
, year=1857
, year_published=2009
, edition=Digitized
, editor=John Gough Nichols
, author=Edward VI (King of England)
, title=Literary Remains of King Edward the Sixth
(Oriental)
As nouns the difference between brike and rike
is that brike is (obsolete) a breach; ruin; downfall; peril while rike is duckling, duck.brike
English
rike
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)citation, genre=Coronations , page=5 , passage=king-rike was in use amongst us so late as the reign of Elizabeth. }}
citation, publisher=A. Constable & Co. , page=480 , passage=RAUMARICAE and RAUGNARICH are the people of the kingdom (RIKE ) of RAUMAR and RAUGNAR. }}
citation, page=464 , passage=The bishop (Tunstal) of Durham was deprived of his bishop-rike . }}