different between roky vs roke

English

Etymology

roke +? -y

Adjective

roky (comparative more roky, superlative most roky)

1. (Britain, dialect) misty; foggy; cloudy
   • 1993, Annie Proulx, The Shipping News, Scribner (1999), ?ISBN, page 40:

     They walked around in the roky damp, in silence.

References

1674, John Ray, A Collection of English Words Not Generally Used

Anagrams

• Kory, York, york

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rok?]

Noun

roky

1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of rok

English

Alternative forms

• roak, rook, rouk

Etymology

From Middle English roke (“fog, vapour, cloud”), probably from Middle Dutch roke, rooc (“smoke”), from Old Dutch rouc (“steam, vapour”), from Proto-Germanic *raukiz (“smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewg- (“to erupt, vomit, burp”), from *rew- (“to roar, growl, grumble”). Cognate with Scots rok, roik, rouk (“mist, fog, cloud”), Dutch rook (“smoke, fog”), German Rauch (“smoke, fume”), Swedish rök (“smoke, fume, steam, reek”), West Frisian reek, riik (“smoke, fume”). More at reek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

roke (plural rokes)

1. (Britain, dialect) Mist; smoke; damp.
2. (Britain, dialect, mining) A vein of ore.

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Anagrams

• Kore, kero, kore, oker

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

roke

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of ruiken
2. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of rieken
3. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of roken

Anagrams

• oker, roek