redel

== Estonian == === Noun === redel (genitive redeli, partitive redelit) ladder ==== Declension ==== == Middle English == === Alternative forms === rydel ridil (Lancashire); redall, redill, redyll, riddil, ryddill, rydill, rydyll (Early Scots) === Etymology === A back-formation from redels, interpreted as the plural of a formation from reden (“to read”) +‎ -el (agentive suffix). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈrɛ̝ːdəl/, /ˈrɛdəl/ (from rǣdels) IPA(key): /ˈreːdəl/, /ˈridəl/ (from rēdels) === Noun === redel (plural redeles) A riddle or enigma; an statement designed to be cryptic. Synonym: redels (more generally) A puzzle; an intellectual problem. Synonym: redels ==== Descendants ==== English: riddle Middle Scots: *riddill Scots: riddle → Norn: ridl ==== References ==== “rēdels, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. “(riddill,) riddil, n.1”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.