User blog comment:Benatius/Another word for rich/@comment-32276655-20171213014609

The only grounds for why it may not be in the wordbook (yet) is because of where it's from. The Old English riće gives us the not-so-well-known English riche (said to be "obsolete" by the Wiki). The Middle English rike comes from an inflow of Old Norse ríki. So, that's why t may not be in there. I am not against putting it in since if we were to keep riche, is it said the same way as rich. What is good to mark is that both the Old Norse and Old English come from the same wellspring (source) of Proto-Germanic *rīkija.