roe
Senso (Inglese)
- (uncountable, usually) Eggs of fish.
- (uncountable, usually) Sperm of certain fish.
- (uncountable, usually) Ovaries of certain crustaceans.
sinonimi
fish eggs
fish roe
fish spawn
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Frequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈɹəʊ/
Etimologia (Inglese)
In summary
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”). 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”).
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