Roch

Middle English Rechedham, from Old English Rachetham, of Brythonic origin, from the intensive Proto-Brythonic prefix *ar- + *koɨd (“wood”), meaning "river opposite of the wood." More at Roch.

Roch

1. A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Irwell.
2. A village in Nolton and Roch community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8721).

• Rochdale (English town)
• Nolton and Roch (Welsh community)

• Roach (alternative spelling for the river)
• Riemann-Roch theorem (etymologically unrelated)

• Mills, A.D.: A Dictionary of English Place Names, 2nd Edition, page 289, s.n. Rochdale. Oxford University Press, 1998

• OCHR, chor

Of Germanic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔk/

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Roch m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Rocco

Derived from:

• Saint Roch
• truncation of Polish personal names beginning with Ro- (e.g. Rościsław and Rodsław) + -ch
• Old Polish roch ("rook", chess piece)

• IPA^(key): /rɔx/

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• Rhymes: -ɔx
• Syllabification: Roch

Roch m pers

1. a male surname

Roch f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

• “Roch”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022