rivel

Meanings

Verb

• To shrivel, wrinkle (up).
• To cause to be wrinkled, to shrivel.

Noun

• A wrinkle; a rimple.
• A kind of small dumpling made from egg and wheat flour, often eaten in soup, especially among the Pennsylvania Dutch and other Germans.

Origin

• From Middle English rivelen, from Old English rifelan, riflian, from a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *ribjōną, equivalent to rive + -le. Related to Old Norse rifja.
• Probably from (Pennsylvania German, from) Palatine Rhine Franconian Riwwel, Ribbel, Riebel (compare Rievel, Ribel, Riebel).