Roß

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See also: ross and Ross

German

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Etymology 1

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From Middle High German rāz, from Old High German rāza, from Proto-West Germanic *hrātu.[1]

Noun

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Roß n (strong, genitive Roßes, plural Roße)

  1. honeycomb
    Synonym: Wabe
Declension
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Alternative forms
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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Roß n (strong, genitive Rosses, plural Rösser or Rosse)

  1. Formerly standard spelling of Ross which was deprecated in the spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) of 1996.

Further reading

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  • Roß” in Duden online

References

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  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hreto”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 245