Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe external covering at the top of a building. · The top external level of a building. · The upper part of a cavity. · The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
From Middle English rhof, rof, roof, rooff, rufe, ruffe, from Old English hrōf (“roof; heaven, sky”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrōf, from Proto-Germanic *hrōfą (“roof”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrapo- (“roof”), from *krāwə- (“to cover, heap”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch roef (“cabin on a boat”), Faroese rógv (“roof”); also Czech, Polish, and Slovene strop (“ceiling”), Russian строп (strop, “attic, loft, roof”), Serbo-Croatian стро̏п, strȍp (“ceiling”).
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- Inherited-form mentionrhofenm
- Inherited-form mentionhrōfang · roof; heaven, sky
- Inherited-form mention*hrōfgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*hrōfągem-pro · roof
- Inherited-form mention*ḱrapo-ine-pro · roof
- Cognate mentionroefnl · cabin on a boat
- Cognate mentionrógvfo · roof
- Cognate mentionстропru · attic, loft, roof
- Cognate mentionстро̏пsh
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