reuten

== German == === Pronunciation === === Etymology 1 === From Middle High German riuten, from Old High German riuten, from Proto-West Germanic *riudijan (“to clear”). Related with Middle High German roten, roden, whence modern roden. Also distantly related with rauben, raufen, and rau. ==== Verb ==== reuten (weak, third-person singular present reutet, past tense reutete, past participle gereutet, auxiliary haben) (archaic, regional, Southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland) to clear woods; to make arable Synonym: (originally northern; now generally predominant) roden ===== Conjugation ===== === Etymology 2 === Back-formation from Reuter, which see. The diphthongs -eu- and -ei- are merged in unrounding dialects (i.e. the majority of traditional High German dialects). ==== Verb ==== reuten (obsolete, rare) alternative spelling of reiten === Further reading === “reuten”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “reuten” in Duden online