roi

See also: rồi, rỗi, rói, Rói, and ROI

• 1 Bourguignon
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Noun
• 2 French
  • 2.1 Etymology
  • 2.2 Pronunciation
  • 2.3 Noun
    • 2.3.1 Related terms
    • 2.3.2 Descendants
  • 2.4 See also
  • 2.5 Further reading
• 3 Old French
  • 3.1 Alternative forms
  • 3.2 Etymology
  • 3.3 Pronunciation
  • 3.4 Noun
    • 3.4.1 Related terms
    • 3.4.2 Descendants
• 4 Papiamentu
  • 4.1 Alternative forms
  • 4.2 Etymology
  • 4.3 Noun
• 5 Polish
  • 5.1 Pronunciation
  • 5.2 Verb
• 6 Romanian
  • 6.1 Etymology
  • 6.2 Pronunciation
  • 6.3 Noun
• 7 Vietnamese
  • 7.1 Pronunciation
  • 7.2 Etymology 1
    • 7.2.1 Noun
  • 7.3 Etymology 2
    • 7.3.1 Noun
• 8 Welsh
  • 8.1 Pronunciation
  • 8.2 Verb

Bourguignon[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin rex.

Noun[edit]

 m (plural rois, feminine roine)

1. king

Etymology[edit]

From Middle French roy, from Old French roi, rei, from Latin rēgem, accusative of rēx, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

 m (plural rois, feminine reine)

1. king Le roi est mort. The king is dead.
2. (chess) king
3. (card games) king

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

• Antillean Creole: wa
• → English: roy (obsolete)
• Guianese Creole: rwè
• Haitian Creole: wa
  • (perhaps) ⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
    • → English: loa
• Karipúna Creole French: hué
• Louisiana Creole French: rwa
• Seychellois Creole: lerwa

See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• “roi” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• rai (Le Roman de Tristan, Thomas d’Angleterre)
• rei
• rex (9th century)
• roy

Etymology[edit]

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA(key): /roj/

Noun[edit]

 m (oblique plural rois, nominative singular rois, nominative plural roi)

1. king
2. (chess) king

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

• Middle French: roy
  • French: roi
    • Antillean Creole: wa
    • Guianese Creole: rwè
    • Haitian Creole: wa
      • (perhaps) ⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
        • → English: loa
    • Karipúna Creole French: hué
    • Louisiana Creole French: rwa
    • Seychellois Creole: lerwa
• Norman:
• Walloon: roy, rwè

Papiamentu[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• rooi (alternative spelling)

Etymology[edit]

From Spanish arroyo.

Noun[edit]

A dry creek, that fills with water after rainfall.

1. creek
2. gulch

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

1. third-person singular present of roić

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From a Slavic language, compare Czech, Slovak and Serbo-Croatian roj, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *rojь.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

1. swarm

Vietnamese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Vietic *p-rɔːj.

Noun[edit]

(classifier cây, cái) • (鞕, ????)

1. whip, rod

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

(classifier cây, trái, quả)

1. (Northern Vietnam) Syzygium samarangense (wax apple) Synonym: mận

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

1. Soft mutation of rhoi.

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