róe

See also: roe, Roe, ROE, roé, and rö

Old Irish

Etymology 1

Noun

róe ?

1. a withe or rope

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

Noun

róe f (genitive roí)

1. flat or level ground
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 133^b7

     róe translates planities

2. a battlefield
3. (by extension) a fight, battle

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 róe (‘withe, rope’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 róe (‘level ground’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language