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ria
Ria comes from Spanish ría ‘inlet, estuary’, from Galician ría ‘Geographical coastal landform where a river…’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- ‘to stream, churn’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₃reyH-‘to stream, churn’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₃riHwósreconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*rīwos‘stream’reconstructed
- Archaic Latinc. 700–75 BCErīvos
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErīvus‘brook, small stream’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CErius‘river’
- Old Galician-Portuguesec. 1100–1500rio‘river (a large and often winding stream which drains a land mass’
- Galicianmodernrío‘river’
- Galician, derivedmodernría‘Geographical coastal landform where a river valley is partially subducted under the sea…’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentsame form‘inlet, estuary’
- Germanc. 1650–presentRia
- Englishearliest quotation 2020ria
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₃reyH-‘to stream, churn’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₃riHwósreconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*rīwos‘stream’reconstructed
- Archaic Latinc. 700–75 BCErīvos
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErīvus‘brook, small stream’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CErius‘river’
- Old Galician-Portuguesec. 1100–1500rio‘river (a large and often winding stream which drains a land mass’
- Galicianmodernrío‘river’
- Galician, derivedmodernría‘Geographical coastal landform where a river valley is partially subducted under the sea…’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentsame form‘inlet, estuary’
- Germanc. 1650–presentRia
- Englishearliest quotation 2020ria
Earliest quotation: 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South: “Flinders had advised Baudin to stop in Port Jackson…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- ‘to stream, churn’
ride, raid, riding, irritable, irritate, ritter, rin, overridden, ern, 12 more
through Latin rīvus ‘brook, small stream’
Today it means
noun A narrow inlet of the sea formed by a flooded unglaciated river valley.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.