Noun: riche
| Sg. | riche |
| Pl. | riches; richen |
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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Bot Bruce was knawin weyll ayr off this kynrik; For he had rycht, we call no man him lik. Bot Wallace thriss this kynrik conquest haile, In Ingland fer socht battaill on that rik. [1477, Blind Harry, The Wallace:]
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15th c., Le Bone Florence of Rome, Lines 1804-1809 ((please add an English translation of this quotation))
Nouns inflected like riche
scalle,
schire,
schete,
bente mone,
pantere,
newe mone,
schrewe,
schanke,
schafte,
morewetid sterre,
kidenere,
yong mone,
sorinesse,
chirche,
cold sterre,
crouche,
culvere,
blasynge sterre,
do,
to, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English rīċe (“mighty, rich”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī, from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“powerful, rich”), from *rīks, an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. See: Old English Nouns '
rīċe'.
Verbs referencing "riche"
English Nouns
rich, German Nouns
Reich.
Translations