different between roe vs roi

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?, IPA^(key): /????/
• (US) enPR: r?, IPA^(key): /??o?/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: row (in some senses only), Roe, Rowe, rho

Etymology 1

From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugn? (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“(frog) spawn”). Cognate with Dutch roge (“roe”), German Low German Rögen (“roe”), German Rogen (“roe”), Danish rogn, ravn (“roe”), Swedish rom (“roe”), Icelandic hrogn (“roe”), Lithuanian kurkula? (“frog spawn”), Russian ???? (krjak, “frog spawn”).

Alternative forms

• roan, rone, roun, rown, rawn, round (dialectal)
• roughne, roughnes (obsolete)

Noun

roe (countable and uncountable, plural roes)

1. The eggs of fish.
2. The sperm of certain fish.
3. The ovaries of certain crustaceans.

Quotations

• 1988: It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness. — Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 40)

Synonyms

• (sperm): milt

Derived terms

• hard roe
• soft roe
• white roe

Translations

See also

• caviar
• egg

Etymology 2

From Middle English ro, roa, from Old English r?, r?ha, from Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raih? (compare Saterland Frisian Räi, Dutch ree, German Reh), from *róyko-, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“spotted, streaked”) (compare Irish riabh ‘stripe, streak’, Latvian ràibs ‘spotted’, Russian ?????? (rjabój, “mottled fur”).

Noun

roe (plural roe or roes)

1. Short for roe deer.
2. A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.

Derived terms

• roebuck

Translations

References

Anagrams

• EOR, ORE, Ore, Ore., REO, o'er, ore, öre, øre

Dutch

Etymology

Shortened form of roede, with regular loss of -de. From Proto-Germanic *r?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru/
• Hyphenation: roe
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

roe f or m (plural roes, diminutive roetje n)

1. Alternative form of roede
2. bundle of twigs, especially in Sinterklaas folklore

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rooja. Cognate to Finnish ruoja and Votic rooja (“dirt, mud, dirtiness, dirty”).

Noun

roe (genitive rooja, partitive rooja)

1. faeces, excrement

Declension

Middle French

Etymology

Old French roe < Latin rota.

Noun

roe f (plural roes)

1. wheel (cylindrical device)

Descendants

• French: roue

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun ro

Verb

roe (imperative ro, present tense roer, passive roes, simple past and past participle roa or roet, present participle roende)

1. (often reflexive, with seg) to calm (ned / down), to soothe

References

• “roe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• roa

Etymology

From the noun ro

Verb

roe (present tense roar, past tense roa, past participle roa, passive infinitive roast, present participle roande, imperative ro)

1. (often reflexive, with seg) to calm (ned / down), to soothe

References

• “roe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

Latin rota.

Noun

roe f (oblique plural roes, nominative singular roe, nominative plural roes)

1. wheel (cylindrical device)

Descendants

• French: roue

Spanish

Verb

roe

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of roer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of roer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of roer.

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *r??j, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruj ~ *ruuj ~ *ru?j ~ *ruhaj (“fly (insect)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??j/

Noun

roi 

1. fly

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Late Latin rex.

Noun

roi m (plural rois, feminine roine)

1. king

French

Alternative forms

• roy (obsolete) [pre-1800]

Etymology

From Middle French roy, from Old French roi, rei, from Latin r?gem, accusative of r?x, from Proto-Indo-European *h?r??s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa/
• Homophones: Roy, rois, roua, rouas, rouât

Noun

roi m (plural rois, feminine reine)

1. king

   Le roi est mort.

   The king is dead.

2. (chess) king
3. (card games) king

Derived terms

Related terms

• régalien
• reine
• royal
• royaume
• royauté

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: wa
• Guianese Creole: rwè
• Haitian Creole: wa
  • (perhaps) ? Haitian Creole: lwa
    • ? English: loa
• Karipúna Creole French: hué
• Louisiana Creole French: rwa
• Seychellois Creole: lerwa

See also

Further reading

• “roi” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Alternative forms

• rai (Le Roman de Tristan, Thomas d'Angleterre)
• rei
• rex (9th century)
• roy

Etymology

From Latin r?x, r?gem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?roi?/

Noun

roi m (oblique plural rois, nominative singular rois, nominative plural roi)

1. king
2. (chess) king

Related terms

• roial/reial
• reaume

Descendants

• Middle French: roy
  • French: roi, roy
    • Antillean Creole: wa
    • Guianese Creole: rwè
    • Haitian Creole: wa
      • (perhaps) ? Haitian Creole: lwa
        • ? English: loa
    • Karipúna Creole French: hué
    • Louisiana Creole French: rwa
    • Seychellois Creole: lerwa
  • Norman:

    Continental Normandy: rai, ré, rey

    Guernsey: ré, roué

    Jersey: rouai

    Sark: rwe

• Walloon: roy, rwè
• ? Middle English: roy, roye
  • English: roy

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

• rooi (alternative spelling)

Etymology

From Spanish arroyo.

Noun

roi

A dry creek, that fills with water after rainfall.

1. creek
2. gulch

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?.i/

Verb

roi

1. third-person singular present of roi?

Romanian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Czech, Slovak and Serbo-Croatian roj, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *roj?.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oj

Noun

roi

1. swarm

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [z?j??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??j??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??j??]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *p-r??j.

Noun

(classifier cây, cái) roi • (?, ????)

1. whip, rod

Etymology 2

Noun

(classifier cây, trái, qu?) roi

1. (Northern Vietnam) Syzygium samarangense (wax apple)

   Synonym: m?n

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?i?/

Verb

roi

1. Soft mutation of rhoi.

Mutation