róe

See also: Appendix:Variations of "roe"

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r͈oːi̯/

Etymology 1

Noun

róe (gender unknown)

1. a withe or rope

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *rowesyā, from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁-. Cognate with Latin rūs (“countryside”), Old English rūm (English room).

Noun

róe f (genitive roí)

1. flat or level ground
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 133^b7

     róe translates planities

2. a battlefield
3. (by extension) a fight, battle

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	róeL	roíL	roí
vocative	róeL	roíL	roí
accusative	roíN	roíL	roí
genitive	roí	róeL	róeN
dative	roíL	róaib	róaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: ré
• Scottish Gaelic: raon

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 róe (‘withe, rope’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 róe (‘level ground’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language