roe的词源

英文词源

roe: roe: Roe the deer [OE] and roe ‘fish eggs’ [15] are distinct words. The former goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *raikh-, which also produced German reh, Dutch ree, Swedish råa, and Danish raa. Its underlying meaning may be ‘spotted’, an allusion to the roe deer’s dappled coat. Roe ‘fish eggs’ was borrowed from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German roge, a word of uncertain origin.
roe (n.1): "fish eggs," mid-15c., probably from an unrecorded Old English *hrogn, from Proto-Germanic *khrugna (cognates: Old Norse hrogn, Danish rogn, Swedish rom, Flemish rog, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch roge, Old High German rogo, German Rogen "roe"), from PIE *krek- "frog spawn, fish eggs" (cognates: Lithuanian kurkle, Russian krjak "spawn of frogs"). Exact relations of the Germanic words are uncertain.
roe (n.2): "small deer," Old English ra, from raha, from Proto-Germanic *raikhaz (cognates: Old Norse ra, Old Saxon reho, Middle Dutch and Dutch ree, Old High German reh, German Reh "roe"), of uncertain origin; perhaps from PIE root *rei- "streaked, spotted, striped in various colors."

来自中古英语 rowe,卵，鱼子，来自 Proto-Germanic*hrogn,产卵，鱼子，来自 PIE*krek,青蛙卵。

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来自古英语 raha,狍，小鹿，来自 Proto-Germanic*raiha,条纹，来自 PIE*rei,有斑点的，有条纹的，可能来自该印欧词根另一词义 PIE*rei,抓，撕，扯，词源同 rift,river.因这种小鹿皮肤条纹状的花纹而得名。