roe

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• homophone: Rowe (toe–tow merger)
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From a Middle English nickname meaning a roe.

From Irish an Ró ("the roaring one").

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”).

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”).

103 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Ahtna: kʼuunʼ — eggs of fish
• Armenian: ձկնկիթ (jknkitʻ) — eggs of fish
• Azerbaijani: kürü — eggs of fish
• Basque: arraba — eggs of fish
• Belarusian: ікра́ (ikrá) — eggs of fish
• Bulgarian: хайвер (hajver) — eggs of fish
• Catalan: fresa — eggs of fish
• Chinese Mandarin: 魚子 /鱼子 (yúzǐ) — eggs of fish
• Chinese Mandarin: 魚卵 /鱼卵 (yúluǎn) — eggs of fish
• Chinese Mandarin: 鮞 /鲕 (ér) — eggs of fish
• Czech: jikra — eggs of fish
• Czech: jikry — eggs of fish
• Danish: rogn — eggs of fish
• Dutch: kuit — eggs of fish
• Esperanto: frajo — eggs of fish
• Estonian: mari — eggs of fish
• Estonian: kalamari — eggs of fish
• Faroese: rogn — eggs of fish
• Finnish: mäti — eggs of fish
• French: œufs de poisson — eggs of fish
• French: frai — eggs of fish
• West-Frisian: kût — eggs of fish
• Galician: míllaras — eggs of fish
• Galician: coral — eggs of fish
• Galician: bragada — eggs of fish
• Galician: bragais — eggs of fish
• Galician: ovas — eggs of fish
• Georgian: ხიზილალა (xizilala) — eggs of fish
• German: Rogen — eggs of fish
• Gorontalo: biyodu — eggs of fish
• Greek: αυγοτάραχα (avgotáracha) — eggs of fish
• Hungarian: ikra — eggs of fish
• Icelandic: hrogn — eggs of fish
• Ilocano: bugi — eggs of fish
• Ingrian: maukku — eggs of fish
• Ingrian: kalanmarja — eggs of fish
• Ingrian: mukkura — eggs of fish
• Italian: uova — eggs of fish
• Japanese: 卵 (tamago) — eggs of fish
• Japanese: 魚卵 (gyoran) — eggs of fish
• Karakalpak: уўылдырық — eggs of fish
• Kazakh: уылдырық (uyldyryq) — eggs of fish
• Khakas: ӧрген (örgen) — eggs of fish
• Konkani: गाबोळी (gāboḷī) — eggs of fish
• Korean: 알 (al) — eggs of fish
• Korean: 생선(生鮮)알 (saengseonal) — eggs of fish
• Korean: 곤이 (goni) — eggs of fish
• Korean: 어란 (eoran) — eggs of fish
• Korean: 물고기알 (mulgogial) — eggs of fish
• Kyrgyz: икра (ikra) — eggs of fish
• Kyrgyz: урук (uruk) — eggs of fish
• Lao: ໄຂ່ປາ (khai pā) — eggs of fish
• Latin: ova — eggs of fish
• Latvian: ikri — eggs of fish
• Lithuanian: ikrai — eggs of fish
• Macedonian: и́кра (íkra) — eggs of fish
• Malayalam: ഇണർ (iṇaṟ) — eggs of fish
• Malayalam: പനഞ്ഞിൽ (panaññil) — eggs of fish
• Māori: hua — eggs of fish
• Māori: koua — eggs of fish
• Māori: tōhua — eggs of fish
• Māori: pē — eggs of fish
• Māori: kouaha — eggs of fish
• Māori: pewa ika — eggs of fish
• Mi'kmaq: nijinj — eggs of fish
• Mongolian: түрс (türs) — eggs of fish
• Norwegian Bokmål: rogn — eggs of fish
• Norwegian Nynorsk: rogn — eggs of fish
• Persian: اشپل (ešpel) — eggs of fish
• Polish: ikra — eggs of fish
• Portuguese: ovas — eggs of fish
• Powhatan: wāhk — eggs of fish
• Powhatan: osiykān — eggs of fish
• Romanian: icre — eggs of fish
• Russian: икра́ (ikrá) — eggs of fish
• Serbo-Croatian: икра — eggs of fish
• Serbo-Croatian: мрест — eggs of fish
• Serbo-Croatian: ikra — eggs of fish
• Serbo-Croatian: mrest — eggs of fish
• Shan: ၶႆႇပႃ (khài pǎa) — eggs of fish
• Slovak: ikra — eggs of fish
• Slovene: ikra — eggs of fish
• Lower Sorbian: jagły — eggs of fish
• Spanish: huevas — eggs of fish
• Swedish: rom — eggs of fish
• Tagalog: bihud — eggs of fish
• Tajik: тухм (tuxm) — eggs of fish
• Tajik: тухми моҳӣ (tuxm-i mohi) — eggs of fish
• Lower Tanana: k'un' — eggs of fish
• Tatar: уылдык (uwıldıq) — eggs of fish
• Thai: ไข่ปลา (kài bplaa) — eggs of fish
• Tibetan: ཉ་གོང (nya gong) — eggs of fish
• Turkish: balık yumurtası — eggs of fish
• Turkish: oğulduruk — eggs of fish
• Ottoman Turkish: بالق یومورطهسی (balık yumurtası) — eggs of fish
• Ukrainian: ікра́ (ikrá) — eggs of fish
• Uzbek: ikra — eggs of fish
• Uzbek: uvuldiriq — eggs of fish
• Vietnamese: trứng cá — eggs of fish
• Volapük: fitanögem — eggs of fish
• Volapük: fitaspärmat — eggs of fish
• Welsh: gronell — eggs of fish
• Welsh: bol caled — eggs of fish