rihtan

From Proto-West Germanic *rihtijan, from Proto-Germanic *rihtijaną. Cognate with Old Saxon rihtian (“to straighten”), Old Norse rétta (“to straighten, stretch, raise, adjust”) and German richten (“to direct, judge, follow, depend on”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrix.tɑn/, [ˈriç.tɑn]

rihtan

1. to right, restore
2. to rectify, correct, amend
3. to keep right, direct, rule, straighten

• ġerihtan
• rihtend
• rihtere
• rihtung

• Middle English: riȝten, righten, reghten
  • English: right

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “rihtan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.