róe
See also: Appendix:Variations of "roe"
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r͈oːi̯/
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)
- 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. 133b7
- róe translates planities
- 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. 133b7
- a battlefield
- (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:
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References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 róe (‘withe, rope’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 róe (‘level ground’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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