róe

• IPA^(key): /r͈oːi̯/

róe (gender unknown)

1. a withe or rope

From Proto-Celtic *rowesyā, from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁-. Cognate with Latin rūs (“countryside”), Old English rūm (English room).

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

• Irish: ré
• Scottish Gaelic: raon

• 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