roh

Meaning

  1. raw (uncooked)
  2. unprocessed, crude, raw
  3. (figuratively) unrefined, rude, brutal

Frequency

C2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

rau

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʁoː/
Etymology

From Middle High German rō, from Old High German (h)rō, from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂-. Cognate with Dutch rauw, English raw. In Old High German only the uninflected stem was monophthongised to -ō. Various ways of levelling yielded many variants in Middle High German (including rō, rōch, rou, rā). The contemporary form has been standard since the 17th century.

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