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OF THE GAELIC LANGUAGE.
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ròcas, a crow; from Norse hrókr, M. Eng. rook, Ag. S. hróc.
ròchd, a cough, retching (Dial.); see ròc.
ròd, a way, road, Ir. ród, E. Ir. ród; from Ag. S. rád, M. Eng. rode, now road.
ròd, a quantity of sea-weed cast on the shore; cf. Ir. ród, a cast, shot (O'R.), E. Ir. rout.
ròd, a rood (of land or mason-work); from the Eng.
rodach, sea-weed growth on timber under water; cf. ròd, sea weed.
rodaidh, ruddy, darkish, M. Ir. rotaide: *rud-do-, root rud, roud of ruadh, q.v.
ròg, rògair, a rogue; from the Eng.
roghainn, a choice, Ir. rogha, g. roghan, E. Ir. rogain, n.pl., O. Ir. rogy: *ro-gu, root gu, gus, of taghadh, q.v. Stokes gives the stem as *rogôn and the root as rog, which (Bez. Beit.18) he correlates with Lat. rogo, ask. Bez. suggests Lit. rogáuti, to cost.
ròib, filth, sqalid beard, filth about the mouth; cf. ròpach for root.
ròic, a sumptuous but unrefined feast; seemingly founded on the Sc. rouch as applied to a feast - "plentiful but rough and ready".
ròic, tear (H.S.D.; Sh. and Arm. have roic); see rocail.
roid, bog myrtle, Ir. rideog (O'R.), M. Ir. raidleog, darnel, raideog, bogmyrtle (St.): *raddi. Cf. ras.
roid, a race before a leap, a bounce or spring: *raddi-, *raz-di-, root ras, as in Eng. race?
roilean, snout of a sow; really the "rolled" up part of the snout, and so possibly from Eng. roll.
roileasg, a confused joy, roille, a fawning or too cordial reception; cf. Ir. róthoil, exceeding pleasure, from toil, will. Also G. roithleas.
roimh, before, Ir. roimh, O. Ir. rem-: *(p)ṛmo- (Stokes), root per, as in ro (= pro); in form, nearest allied to Eng. from, Got. fruma, Lit. pirm, before. In the pronominal compounds, where s begins the pronoun, the m and s develop an intermediate p coincident with the eclipse of the s: rompa = *rom-p-shu, where su = sôs (see sa).
ròin, ròineag (also ròinn, ròinneag), Ir. róine, róinne, a hair, especially a horse hair, W. rhawn, coarse long hair, Cor. ruen, Br. reun, a hair, bristle, Skr. roman, hair, etc: *râni-; cf. Ir. ruain, hair of tail of cow or horse, ruainne, a hair.
roinn, division, share, Ir. roinn, M. Ir. roinded, divided: *ranni-, an i stem from rann, q.v.
