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Low German
- Rühe (Paderbornisch)
- Rüë (Lippisch)
- Rüe (Lippisch, Münsterländisch, Sauerländisch)
- rüe (Sauerländisch; scientific spelling)
Etymology
From the oblique form of Rüe (still retained in some dialects), itself with d-loss from older Rüede, from Middle Low German rȫde, from Old Saxon *(h)ruthio, from Proto-Germanic *hruþjô (“male dog”), possibly from *hruttōn- (“to roar”), from a Proto-Indo-European root shared by Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza), Old English hrot. Or, from Proto-Germanic *hreutan-, *hrūtan-, *hruttōną (“to snore”), which would be related to Old Norse hrjóta.
Cognate with Dutch reu, German Rüde. Both of these now mean “male dog”, but the original meaning was “large dog, hound”.
Pronunciation
Noun
Rüen m (plural Rüens)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (Westphalia, regional) dog
- Synonym: Hund
Noun
Rüen
- inflection of Rüe:
- accusative singular
- nominative plural
References
- Guus Kroonen (2013) “hruþjan”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN