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rō

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ro"

Hawaiian

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Noun

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rō

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

Japanese

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Romanization

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rō

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ろう

Livonian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *raha, from Proto-Germanic *skrahō. Cognates include Estonian raha, Finnish raha.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rǭ'

  1. money

Declension

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Declension of rō (13)
singular (ikšlug) plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv) rō rōd
genitive (genitīv) rō rōd
partitive (partitīv) rōdõ rōḑi
dative (datīv) rōn rōdõn
instrumental (instrumentāl) rōkõks rōdkõks
illative (illatīv) rōzõ rōži
inessive (inesīv) rōsõ
rōs 		rōši
elative (elatīv) rōstõ
rōst 		rōšti

References

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Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *loʀo (“red ant, ” – compare with Tahitian rō, Tongan lō, Fijian lolo “ant”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *loʀo.[1][2][3]

Noun

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rō

  1. ant
    Synonym: rōroro
  2. mantis, praying mantis; stick insect
    Synonym: whē

References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 420
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “loo1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2011) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 4: Animals, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 391-2
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