Roine

From Old Catalan Royne, from Latin Rhodanus, from Ancient Greek Ῥοδᾰνός (Rhodănós).

Roine m

1. Rhone, Rhône (a major river in Switzerland and France that flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea)
2. Rhône (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)

• Boques del Roine
• Roine-Alps

• rodaniana

• “Roine” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Unknown. Theories have included connection with a dialectal term roine (“roar, thunder, noise”) (~ roikua?) and a comparison to Indo-European *kroyn-is (whence Proto-Germanic *hrainiz (“clean, pure”)).^[1]

The surname and given name were inspired by depictions of the lake in popular literature in the 19th century, such as in poems by Zachris Topelius and Karl Collan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈroi̯neˣ/, [ˈro̞i̯ne̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -oine
• Syllabification^(key): Roi‧ne
• Hyphenation^(key): Roi‧ne

Roine

1. a lake in Finland
2. a Finnish surname transferred from the place name
3. (rare) a male given name transferred from the place name
4. (rare) a female given name transferred from the place name

• The given name Roine belongs to 35 male individuals (and as a middle name to 35 more), and also belongs to 14 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
• Roine is the 1163^rd (tied with 2 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 736 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.