royne
See also: roÿne
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French royne, reïne.
Noun
royne f (plural roynes)
Descendants
- French: reine
Norman
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French royne, reine, from Latin rēgīna.
Noun
royne f (plural roynes)
Old French
Alternative forms
- raine, raïne
- reine, reïne
- roigne
- roine, roïne
- roÿne (diaereses are not universally used in scholarly transcriptions of Old French)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /roi̯ˈi.nə/, /ˈroi̯.nə/
Noun
royne oblique singular, f (oblique plural roynes, nominative singular royne, nominative plural roynes)
- queen (female monarch)