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Rheydt
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German
Etymology
From de odt Reithe, of de 1 origin. Possibly a variant of odt rēda (also attested with th and dh and underlying in several placenames), from de gmw-pro *raidu (whence en road). Another possibility would be relation with de roden to make arable, but goh riutī (as in de Bayreuth etc.) cannot be the source and a fitting cognate does not seem to exist (the local equivalent being de -rath).
Pronunciation
de /ʁaɪ̯t/
de reit reiht
Proper noun
toponym
de A <<former town>>, now a quarter of Mönchengladbach, <<s/North Rhine-Westphalia>>, <<c/Germany>>.