English Explanatory Dictionary

ridder

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. a sieve
verb
  1. to sieve; sift; riddle
noun
  1. One who, or that which, rids.
name
  1. A city in East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan; formerly, Leninogorsk.
  2. A surname.

Word forms

ridder ridders riddering riddered

Etymology

From Middle English ridder, rydder, from Old English hridder (“sieve”) (also as Old English hriddel > English riddle (“sieve”)), from Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to divide; part; separate; sift”). Cognate with German Reiter (“sieve”).

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