riaghail
Gaelic (Scots)
/rˠiə.al/
verb
Definitions
- rule, govern, reign
- administer, moderate, regulate, direct
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish riagol, riagul borrowed from Latin rēgula (rule, bar, straight line).
Origin
Latin
rēgula
Gloss
rule, bar, straight line
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- footrule English
- forerule English
- framerule English
- irregulous English
- metarule English
- misrule English
- outrule English
- overrule English
- rulable English
- rule English
- rulebook English
- rulebound English
- rulebreaker English
- rulebreaking English
- ruleful English
- ruleless English
- rulemaking English
- rulemonger English
- ruler English
- ruleset English
- rulest English
- ruleth English
- rulez English
- self-rule English
- subrule English
- unruly English
- rulettaa Finnish
- *regla Latin
- rēgula Latin
- Regel German
- regola Italian
- *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- regra Portuguese
- régua Portuguese
- reule Middle English
- reule Old French
- rella Catalan, Valencian
- rella Galician
- regulă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- regel Middle Dutch
- rigil Old High German
- riagol, riagul Old Irish
- ríagol Old Irish
- riaghailt Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- riōl, riōl(e) Middle Low German