The verb has probably nothing to do with rė́žti (-ia) “cut” etymologically as is sometimes supposed, but it evidently contains a root reiž- / riž-, which is represented also by Lith. pa-ráižti (-ia) “fill up”, Latv. rìẽzt (-žu, -zu) “cut, slice”, riezis “boundary, bound; patch, lot”, Lith. ryžė̃ “patch, lot, plot”, ryželis “strip, stripe”, pa-raĩžiuo. pa-reĩžiuo “in turn, in succession, in order” and others.
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