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Hawaiian
Noun
rō
- The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.
Japanese
Romanization
rō
- Rōmaji transcription of ろう
Livonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *raha, from Proto-Germanic *skrahō. Cognates include Estonian raha, Finnish raha.
Pronunciation
Noun
rǭ'
- money
Declension
References
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *loʀo (“red ant, ” – compare with Tahitian rō, Tongan lō, Fijian lolo “ant”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *loʀo.[1][2][3]
Noun
rō
- ant
- Synonym: rōroro
- mantis, praying mantis; stick insect
- Synonym: whē
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 420
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “loo1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2011) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 4: Animals, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 391-2