rix-dollar

Alternative forms

 * ; rexdoler; rexdollar; rexdoller
 * ; rexdoler; rexdollar; rexdoller
 * ; rexdoler; rexdollar; rexdoller


 * ; rycksdollar
 * ; rix doller; rixdollar; rixdoller



Etymology
Borrowed from obsolete (modern ), after early modern ; compare,.

Noun

 * 1)  A silver coin and money of account in use from the late-16th to the mid-19th centuries in the European Teutonic countries and their imperial trading networks.
 * 2) * 1999, Mike Mitchell, translating, Simplicissimus, V.6, Dedalus 2016, p. 373:
 * He sent for the celebrated necromancer who lived at the sign of the Goatskin and whose familiar spirit so plagued the thief that he returned the stolen goods to their rightful owner, for which the sorcerer was paid ten rix-dollars.
 * 1)  A unit of currency introduced into certain former European colonies such as Cape Province and Ceylon.
 * 1)  A unit of currency introduced into certain former European colonies such as Cape Province and Ceylon.

Translations

 * Caribbean Hindustani: dála
 * Caribbean Javanese: sringgit, ringgitan
 * Danish: rigsdaler
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: ríkisdáli
 * German:
 * Indonesian:
 * Sranan Tongo: dala, knaka
 * Swedish:
 * West Frisian: ryksdaelder