рити

рити • (riti) ?

1. to till

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɪte]

From Proto-Slavic *ryti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *rūˀ-. Related to the vowel ordering of рва́ти (rváty, “to tear”), from Old East Slavic ръвати (rŭvati, “to tear”), from Proto-Slavic *rъvati, from Proto-Indo-European *rew-, *h₃rew-.

Compare Russian рыть (rytʹ), Belarusian рыць (rycʹ), Old East Slavic рꙑти (ryti), Polish ryć, Upper Sorbian ryć, Czech rýt, Slovak ryť, Lower Sorbian ryś, Polabian råjě, Bulgarian рия (rija), Macedonian рие (rie), Serbo-Croatian ри̏ти (“to root, smell out”), Slovene ríti, Old Church Slavonic рꙑти (ryti).

Related to Lithuanian ráuti (“to root, dig”), rūtis (“potato pit, cellar”), Sanskrit रवति (rávati, “breaks up, fragments”), Irish ruam (“spade, shovel”).

ри́ти • (rýty) impf

1. to dig, to excavate

   ри́ти колодя́зь ― rýty kolodjázʹ ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Synonym: копати (kopaty)

2. to root (as a pig)
3. to search in

   ритися в архівах ― rytysja v arxivax ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

From late Proto-Slavic *ryti (“to carve”). Compare ри́ти (rýty, “to dig”), деревори́т (derevorýt, “woodcut”).

Also compare Old East Slavic рꙑтиꙗ (rytija), Polish ryć (“to carve, engrave”), rytować (“to carve, engrave”), Czech rýt (“to dig, engrave”), rytí (“engraving”), Slovak ryť (“to dig, cut”), rytie (“sculpture”), Upper Sorbian ryć (“to dig, engrave”).

ри́ти • (rýty) impf

1. (dialectal) to engrave

   Synonyms: гравірувати (hraviruvaty), рисувати (rysuvaty)

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “рити”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, pages 82—83
• Rudnyc'kyj, Ja. (1972–1982), “рвати”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, volume 2 (Д – Ь), issue 12–22, Ottawa: Ukr. Mohylo-Mazepian Acad. of Sci. & Ukr. Lang. Assoc., →LCCN, page 942