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                  Ra Re Ro Ru
                  Rai Ran Rat

                  raid

                  could just be the Scots for ‘rode’.  But in the Borders, going for a ride and what you did during it were so much part of each other that the word passed into English with its alternative meaning of a predatory expedition on horseback.