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Rike vs Rive - What's the difference?

rike | rive |

As a noun rike

is duckling, duck.

As a verb rive is

.

rike

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) sovereignty, dominion, authority
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1820 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , author=Arthur Taylor , title=The Glory of Regality citation , genre=Coronations , page=5 , passage=king-rike was in use amongst us so late as the reign of Elizabeth. }}
  • (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 citation , publisher=A. Constable & Co. , page=480 , passage=RAUMARICAE and RAUGNARICH are the people of the kingdom (RIKE ) of RAUMAR and RAUGNAR. }}
  • * {{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 citation , page=464 , passage=The bishop (Tunstal) of Durham was deprived of his bishop-rike . }}

    Etymology 2

    From the as a result of the difficulty of pronouncing the letter 'L' in many oriental languages.

    Verb

  • (Oriental)

    • Anagrams

    * * ----

    rive

    English

    Verb

  • To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
    • I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks
  • To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
  • * :
    • And therwith she toke the swerd from her loue that lay ded and fylle to the ground in a swowne / And whan she aroos she made grete dole out of mesure / the whiche sorowe greued Balyn passyngly sore / and he wente vnto her for to haue taken the swerd oute of her h?d butsodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body
  • (label) To break apart; to split.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vi:
    • The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue .
  • * (1665-1728)
    • Freestone rives , splits, and breaks in any direction.
  • In woodworking, to use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).

    • Synonyms

    * (to rend asunder) cleave, rend, split

    See also

    * rip * rib

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place torn; a rent; a rift.

    • Synonyms

    * (a place torn) rent, rift ----