Where does “Riess” come from?

Riess (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German rīs, from Old French ris, from Italian riso, from Latin rīsus, from Ancient Greek ὄρυζα, from Proto-Iranian *wrinǰiš.

Riess (Plautdietsch): rice

Definitions

  1. rice

Ancestry of “Riess”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanrīs—
2Old Frenchrisreef
3Italianrisolaughter, laugh; rice; past participle of ridere
4Latinrīsuslaughed at, ridiculed, mocked, having been ridiculed
5Ancient Greekὄρυζαrice
6Proto-Iranian*wrinǰiš—
Every word from Proto-Iranian *wrinǰiš →Every word from Ancient Greek ὄρυζα →Every word from Latin rīsus →