- Cognate with ‘rise’?
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- Old Icelandic risi, risar ’giant, giants’; risa-barn ‘giant-child’; risa-folk ‘giant-folk’; risa-kyn’giant-kind’; risa-ligr ‘giant-like, gigantic’; risa-voxtr ‘giant’s size’ (Zoega)
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- See Lotte Motz 1987
- Old English hris ‘the top of a tree, ride wood’
- Sanskrit rishi?
- Rissen Scar (Westmoreland)?
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