# rye
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English rie, reighe, from Old English ryġe, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrugʰís.
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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹaɪ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪ
* Homophone: wry

### Noun

rye (countable and uncountable, plural ryes)
* A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. [from 8th c.]
* The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. [from 14th c.]
* Rye bread. [from 19th c.]
* (US, Canada) Rye whiskey. [from 19th c.]
** 1925, John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, 2nd section, page 146:“Gimme a shot of rye.” The whiskey stung his throat hot and fragrant.
** 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 159: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.
** 1971, “American Pie”, in American Pie‎, performed by Don McLean:Them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey ’n rye/Singin’, "This’ll be the day that I die."
* (US, Canada) A drink of rye.
** 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 17: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.
* Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
* Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
* A disease of hawks.
** 1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans: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.
** 1618, Symon Latham, Latham's Falconry: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.

#### Coordinate terms

* (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

#### Derived terms

* Robin's rye
* rock and rye
* Romany rye
* rye bread
* rye flake
* ryegrass
* rye seed
* rye wolf
* rye-worm
* Virginia wild rye
* wild rye

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* -ery, -yer, Rey, Yer, e'ry, eyr, yer, yre

## Japanese
### Romanization

rye
* The katakana syllable リェ (rye) in Hepburn-like romanization.

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* rie, reye, reyghe, reyhe, ruye

### Etymology

From Old English ryge, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈriː(ə)/

### Noun

rye (plural ryes)
* rye (Secale cereale)

#### Descendants

* English: rye
* Scots: ry
* Yola: ree

#### References

* “rīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

rye f (definite singular rya, indefinite plural ryer, definite plural ryene)
* rya

#### Related terms

* ru

### References

* “rye” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* yre