reynbowe

• reinbow, reinbowe, rein-bowe, reynebawe, reynebowe
• raynbowe, raynebowe, rayne-bowe (Late Middle English); reynebow (Promptorium Parvulorum)
• rainbou, rainbow (Northern); rayn bowe (Catholicon Anglicum); raine-bogh, rayn-boghe (Lancashire)

From Old English reġnboga, from Proto-West Germanic *regnabogō, from Proto-Germanic *regnabugô; equivalent to reyn (“rain”) +‎ bowe (“bow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈræi̯nˌbɔu̯(ə)/

reynbowe

1. rainbow (multicoloured arch created by the reflection of rain)
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Apocalips 10:1, page 120v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     And I ſaı an oþ̇e ſtronge aũngel comynge doũ fro heuene cloþıd wıþ a cloude .· ⁊ þe reynbowe on hıs heed / ⁊ þe face of hĩ was as þe ſũne .· ⁊ feet of hĩ as a pıler of fıer […]

     And I saw another strong angel descending from Heaven, clothed with a cloud and [having] a rainbow above his head. His face was like the sun, his legs were like a pillar of fire […]

• English: rainbow
  • Sranan Tongo: alenbo
• Scots: rainbow

• “rein, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.