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RoeEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From a Middle English nickname meaning a roe.
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From "Jane Roe", the legal pseudonym of the case's anonymous plaintiff.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗RoeEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From Irish an Ró ("the roaring one").
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗RoeEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From a clipping of Roegadyn.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗roeEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English *hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugną (“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 kurkulai̇̃ (“frog spawn”), Russian кряк (krjak, “frog spawn”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗roeEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English ro, roa, from Old English rā, rāha, from Proto-West Germanic *raihō, from Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raihą, from *róyko-, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“spotted, streaked”). See also Saterland Frisian Räi, Dutch ree, German Reh; also Irish riabh (“tripe, streak”), Latvian ràibs (“spotted”), Russian рябо́й (rjabój, “mottled fur”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- RoeEnglish · e-38699-6755
Roe, rō, n. the eggs or spawn of fishes: a mottled appearance in wood, esp. mahogany.—adj. Roed, containing roe. [Ice. hrogn; Ger. rogen.]
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Roe, rō, n. a species of deer, smaller than the fallow-deer: also the female of the hart.—ns. Roe′buck, the male of the roe, having usually one front antler and two hinder ones; Roe′buck-berr′y, the stone-bramble; Roe′-d
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