ross

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ross (uncountable)

1. (US, dialect) The rough, scaly surface on the bark of trees.

ross (third-person singular simple present rosses, present participle rossing, simple past and past participle rossed)

1. (US, dialect, transitive) To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface.

   to ross bark

ross (plural rosses)

1. (UK, dialect) A swamp.

• RSOs, SROs, sors

From Middle High German ros, from Old High German ros, hros, from Proto-West Germanic *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”). Cognate with German Ross, English horse.

ross n (diminutive rössle)

1. (Luserna) horse

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Old Norse hross, from Proto-Germanic *hursaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“run”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹɔsː/

ross n (genitive singular ross, plural ross)

1. horse (Equus caballus)

• hestur (stallion)
• ryssa (mare)

Akin to Italian rosso, from Latin russus.

ross

1. red

• rożż (obsolete)

From Arabic رُزّ (ruzz).

• IPA^(key): /rɔs/

ross m (collective, singulative rossa, paucal rossiet)

1. rice

   Hyponym: riżella

   • 1975, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Ħajja u l-Għarajjes”, in L-Għanja tas-Sittin:

     Il-Ħajja ma’ l-għarajjes
     daret kollha daħkana;
     għalihom ferħ biss kellha
     u daqq u żfin u għana,
     xita ta’ ross, xewqiet
     f’għomor mimli għaxqiet;

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