- Cognate with ‘rise’?
- PIE *H3er-s ‘rise, protrude’?
- Old Norse Risar ‘mountain giants’
- Old Norse Bergrisar ‘mountain giants’
- 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)
- Archaic Swedish rese ‘giant’
- Modern Icelandic risi
- Danish rise
- Old High German risi, riso
- German riese ‘giant’
- German surnames: Riess, Reiss, Rees
- Dutch reus ‘giant’
- See Lotte Motz 1987
- Old English hris ‘the top of a tree, ride wood’
- Sanskrit rishi?
- Rissen Scar (Westmoreland)?