Part of speech: verb
Verb type: strong verb (1)
1. to ride on horseback; 2. to move; to travel; rídan on ancre to ride at anchor, to lie at anchor (of a vessel)
Etymology
[Mod E RIDE ← Prot-Germ *rīdan; O Fris rīda; O Sax umbi-rīdan; Dt rijden; OHG rītan (Mod G reiten); Icel ríða ← Indo-Europ *reidh-; O Ir réidid “to ride”]
Paradigm
4.1.1. - I class
| I class | infinitive | past tense singular | past tense plural | past participle |
| to write | wrítan | wrát | writon | writen |
| to cut; to cut off | sníðan | snáþ | snidon | sniden |
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