roin

See also: ròin and róin

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman runger, ultimately of imitative origin.

Verb

roin (third-person singular simple present roins, present participle roining, simple past and past participle roined)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To growl; to roar. [15th–17th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Yet did he murmure with rebellious sound, / And softly royne, when salvage choler gan redound.

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman roigne, roin et al., of uncertain origin. Compare roynish.

Noun

roin (plural roins)

1. (obsolete) A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot. [15th–16th c.]

Anagrams

• Iron, Orin, RINO, Rion, inro, inrō, iron, noir, nori

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• rolln (Southern Bavarian)

Etymology

From Middle High German rollen, from Old French roeler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre, from Latin rotula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroe̯n/

Verb

roin (past participle groit) (Central)

1. (intransitive, of something round) to roll [auxiliary sei]
2. (transitive) to roll (something round, e.g. a wheel) [auxiliary håbn]
3. (transitive) to roll (something on its wheels) [auxiliary håbn]

Conjugation

Conjugation of roin

infinitive	roin
past participle	groit
	present	past	subjunctive
1st person singular	roi	-	rollad
2nd person singular	roist	-	rolladst
3rd person singular	roit	-	rollad
1st person plural	roin	-	rolladn
2nd person plural	roits	-	rollats
3rd person plural	roin	-	rolladn
	imperative
singular	roi
plural	roits

Derived terms

• aufroin
• ausroin
• außaroin
• außeroin
• außiroin
• davoroin
• derroin
• durchroin
• einaroin
• eineroin
• einiroin
• eiroin
• fieraroin
• fiereroin
• fieriroin
• herroin
• hiroin
• iwaranånd
• iwaroin
• nausroin
• neiroin
• owaroin
• oweroin
• owiroin
• ummaroin
• ummeroin
• ummiroin
• verroin
• wegaroin
• wegroin
• weiderroin
• zruckroin
• zåmmroin
• åroin

Manx

Pronoun

roin

1. first-person plural of roish

   before us

   • Heeyn yn clane twoaie jeh'n ellan roin. The whole north of the island lay before us.
   • Va'n lhong jeeragh roin. The ship was straight ahead of us.

Derived terms

• roinyn (emphatic)

Volapük

Noun

roin (genitive roina, plural roins)

1. (anatomy) kidney

Declension

Declension of roin

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	roin	roins
Genitive	roina	roinas
Dative	roine	roines
Accusative	roini	roinis
Predicative1	roinu	roinus
Vocative	o roin	o roins

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.