Rye
/raɪ/noun
A cereal grain used for bread, whiskey, and animal feed.
Did you know?Rye’s English name goes back to Proto-Germanic *rugjō, and its deeper history is so old that it reflects the basic farming vocabulary of early Indo-European life, not a later “mystical” invention.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*rugjō
“rye”
Old English
OE
ryge
“rye”
Middle English
ME
rye
“rye”
Modern English
English
rye
“a cereal grain of the genus Secale”