Rnd 3209 RYIJY - call for votes

[Johnb - co.uk]

Below are 14 definitions for this word. 1 is from a dictionary - they have been sorted so that they are not in the order submitted

Please vote publicly for two of these definitions before 22: 00 GMT Tuesday 

JohnnyB

1. Sake made without brewer's alcohol, including all junmai and some ginjo and daiginjo sakes, which may be referred to by the compound names junmai ginjo and junmai daiginjo.

2. a dark and storm-like cloud formation, typically found in Iceland, proposed as a type of cloud in 2010 by the Cloud Appreciation Society and added to the International Cloud Atlas as a supplementary feature in 2018. The name means "roughness" in Icelandic.

3. [Orig Inuit] A large dog sled, designed to travel on snow and ice, built using traditional Inuit design techniques. It is similar to a qamutiik, but larger and heavier.

4. a grass, Bromus secalinus, native to Europe and Asia, having rough leaves and wheatlike ears

5. a woven Finnish long-tufted tapestry or knotted-pile carpet hanging

6. a Lithuanian grain-based alcoholic drink, usually flavored with caraway seeds.

7. a 1932 proposal for the reform of English spelling by philanthropist J. Jefferson Ridge (1887- 1935), named for the spelling of his name according to his system; also, the phonetic analysis on which the proposal was based.

8. a one horse two-wheeled passenger vehicle, used in Eastern Europe originally for local journeys but now mostly for racing.

9. Yak’s milk yogurt.

10. specialized pulley system used by arborists to climb trees.

11. a headland (Icel.)

12. a helpful spirit that assists good people.

13. a peculiar East Indian mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachute like membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; called also flying lemur.

14. embroidery on traditional Muslim garments, including the niqab and the hijab. Ryijy designs vary from simple cross stitch to intricate and ornate embroidery.

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 4 and 5. But you left out my def which I sent last night.

--Mike

[Daniel B Widdis]

I’d like the bartender to serve me up a 1 and a 6.

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[Judy Madnick]

5. a woven Finnish long-tufted tapestry or knotted-pile carpet hanging

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14. embroidery on traditional Muslim garments, including the niqab and the hijab. Ryijy designs vary from simple cross stitch to intricate and ornate embroidery.

 

Judy Madnick

 

[Tim Lodge]

Two spirits, please: 1 and 12.

                 1. Sake made without brewer's alcohol, including all junmai and some ginjo and daiginjo sakes, which may be referred to by the compound names junmai ginjo and junmai daiginjo.

               12. a helpful spirit that assists good people.

--  Tim L

[Hugo Kornelis]

No idea what this says about me or my current state of mind, but I go for the booze.

1. Sake made without brewer's alcohol, including all junmai and some ginjo and daiginjo sakes, which may be referred to by the compound names junmai ginjo and junmai daiginjo.

6. a Lithuanian grain-based alcoholic drink, usually flavored with caraway seeds.

Cheers! *hickup*

Hugo

Op 14-11-2021 om 23:26 schreef Johnb - co.uk:

[Tim B]

1 and 6, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Shani Naylor]

I'll go against the flow and vote 7 & 12.

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[Johnb - co.uk]

Mike

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JohnnyB

On 14/11/2021 22:39, 'France International/Mike Shefler' via Dixonary wrote:

I'll go with 4 and 5. But you left out my def which I sent last night.

--Mike

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[Paul Keating]

I remember little of my Japanese, and even less of my Icelandic (of which there was admittedly less to start with),  but still enough to make the Japanese and Icelandic defs implausible. I vote for 6 & 12.

P

[Debbie Embler]

I give up! Voting 9 and 14 

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[Ann Druce]

3 and 8 for me – even though somehow ryijy sounds like is should be a smaller version of the dog sled, not a larger one!

 

Regards

Ann

 

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Subject: [Dixonary] Rnd 3209 RYIJY - call for votes

 

Below are 14 definitions for this word. 1 is from a dictionary - they have been sorted so that they are not in the order submitted

 

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[Efrem G Mallach]

Voting for the two that propose an etymology, implausible though it (and they) may be: 2 and 7.

Efrem

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On Nov 14, 2021, at 5:26 PM, Johnb - co.uk <jo...@john-barrs.co.uk> wrote:

Below are 14 definitions for this word. 1 is from a dictionary - they have been sorted so that they are not in the order submitted

Please vote publicly for two of these definitions before 22: 00 GMT Tuesday 

JohnnyB

2. a dark and storm-like cloud formation, typically found in Iceland, proposed as a type of cloud in 2010 by the Cloud Appreciation Society and added to the International Cloud Atlas as a supplementary feature in 2018. The name means "roughness" in Icelandic.