RIDING, or THRITHING,
the three things, q.v., i.e. the three places or districts where the Scandinavians held their judicial assemblies; e.g. the Ridings, in Yorkshire, so named under the Danish rule; Lincoln was divided by the Danes in the same manner.
RIED (A.S.),
a reed; e.g. Retford and Radford (the reedy ford); Radbourne (reedy brook); Redbridge, in Hants, anc. Reideford (reedy ford). Bede calls it Arundinis-vadum, Lat. (the ford of the reeds).
RIGGE (A.S.),
RÜCHEN (Ger.),
a ridge; e.g. Hansrücke (John’s ridge); Hengistrücke (the horses’ ridge); Hundsricke (the dog’s ridge); Rudgeley (the field at the ridge); Brownrigg, Grayrigg (the brown and gray ridge); Reigate (the passage through the ridge), contracted from ridgegate; Lindridge (lime-tree ridge); Rucksteig (the steep path on the ridge); Langrike (long ridge); Steenrücke (stony ridge).
RIPA (Lat.),
RIVA (It.),
RIBA (Span. and Port.),
RIVE (Fr.),
a bank or the border of a stream; e.g. Riva (on the bank of Lake Como); Riva or Rief (on Lake Garda); Rive-de-Gier and Aube-rive (on the banks of the R. Gier and Aube); Aute-rive and Rives-altes (the high river-banks); Rieux, anc. Rivi-Castra (the camp of the river-bank); Riberac (on the bank of the water), in France; Rivalta (the high bank), in Piedmont; Rivoli, anc. Ripula (the little bank), in Piedmont; Romorantin, anc. Rivus-Morentini (the bank of the R. Morantin), in France; Riveria or Riberia, in Low Lat. signified a plain on the bank of a river—hence Rivière, Rivières, Hautes-Rivières, La Rivoire, etc., in France; Rivarrennæ, i.e. Ripa-arenæ (the sandy bank), on the R. Cher; the Rialto at Venice is corrupt, from Riva-alto (the high bank); Rye, in Sussex, in Lat. records Ripa; Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, formerly Rye (on the bank of the water); Altrupp, on the R. Rhone, anc. Alta-ripa (the high bank); Ribaute and Autrepe, for Haute-rive (high bank), in Belgium; Ribadavia and Riba-de-Sella (the bank of the Rivers Avia and Sella), in Spain; Ripon, in Yorkshire, anc. Ripum (on the bank of the R. Ure).
RISCH (Ger.),
RISGE (A.S.),
ROGOSCHA (Sclav.),
the rush; e.g. Ruscomb (the rushy hollow); Rushbrook (the rushy stream); Rushford, Rushmere, Rushholme, Ryston (the rushy ford, marsh, island, and town); Rogatzn, in Poland, and Rogatchev, in Russia (the place of rushes).