roie

From Proto-Finnic [Term?]. Cognate to Votic roittu (“trash”), Ingrian roitto (“trash”) and Livvi roitto (“guts, innard, insides of a dead animal”).

roie (genitive roide, partitive roiet)

1. (anatomy) rib

   Synonym: (somewhat colloquial) ribi

From Old Irish reithid, from Proto-Celtic *reteti, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂-.

• IPA^(key): /rəi/, /riː/^[1]

roie (verbal noun roie, past participle roit)

1. to run, race, scurry, bolt, dart
2. (figuratively) to run, flow, extend through

   Ta ny sleityn roie shiar as sheear. ― The mountains run from east to west.

   Ta'n awin roie stiagh 'sy logh. ― The river runs into the lake.

roie (m)

1. verbal noun of roie

From Old Irish rïam, the third-person singular masculine form of Old Irish ré, from Proto-Celtic *ɸrīs (compare Gaulish ris), from Proto-Indo-European *per-. Cognate with English first and Latin prīscus (“former”). Supplanted by roish, the form used before the definite article. See also rieau and the cognates Irish roimh, Scottish Gaelic ro, and Classical Gaelic ré.

• IPA^(key): /rõːĩ/^[2]

roïe

1. before, earlier

   Ta mee baghey ayns y jiass, myr dooyrt me roïe. ― I live in the south, as I said earlier.

   Ta mee roïe er chlashtyn yn skeeal shen. ― I've heard that story before.

   • 1796, Thomas Christian, Pargys Caillit, translation of Paradise Lost by John Milton, published 1872, lines 888-889:

     Ard heose 'syn aer, as faagit heese nyn yeï, / Ooigyn dowin agglagh raad v'ad roïe nyn soie.

     High up in the sky, and left beneath, behind them, / Deep, awful pits where they previously rested.

roïe

1. (obsolete) unconjugated form of roish (“before”)