Noun: roe
| Singular | roe |
| Plural | roes; roe |
Sample Sentences
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It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness. [1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 40:]
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Today, some seafood experts say, the cheaper (though mushier) roe feeds 60 percent of the market. [2003 July 20, Jeffrey Gettleman, “Humble Paddlefish Fulfills Southerners' Caviar Dreams”, in The New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like roe
whiting,
Munduruku,
Mundurucu,
sempai,
senpai,
saseng,
satang,
cunjevoi,
sansei,
Namboothiri,
somoni,
Sentinelese,
siopao,
shogun,
shinza,
Barakzai,
Chippewyan,
Diaguita,
shōgun,
thermal horsepower, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English *hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugną (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“(frog) spawn”).
2. Cognate with Dutch roge (“roe”), German Low German Rögen (“roe”), German Rogen (“roe”), Danish rogn, ravn (“roe”), Swedish rom (“roe”), Icelandic hrogn (“roe”), Lithuanian kurkulai̇̃ (“frog spawn”), Russian кряк (krjak, “frog spawn”). See: Middle English Nouns '
rowe', Old English Nouns '
*hrogn', Dutch Nouns '
roge', German Nouns '
Rogen', Danish Nouns '
rogn', Swedish Nouns '
rom', Icelandic Nouns '
hrogn'.
Verbs referencing "roe"
German Nouns
Rogen, Swedish Nouns
rom, Danish Nouns
rå.