riga
/ˈɹiːɡə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The capital city of Latvia.
name
The Latvian government.
name
A place in the United States:
name
A place in the United States:
name
A surname.
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Etymology
From Latvian Rīga, of disputed origin: * Possibly a form of Riege, the German name for the Rīdzene, a tributary of the Daugava river. * Possibly from rija (“threshing barn”), the j becoming a g in German (note that English geographer Richard Hakluyt calls the city Rie in 1589, and that German historian Dionysius Fabricius confirms in 1610 the origin of Rīga from rija).
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