roe
意味
- 魚卵,はららご
- ノロジカ(ヨーロッパ,アジア産の小型のシカ)
例文
I don't understand why people like salmon roe.
イクラって何がおいしいのかわからない。
What she liked best was herring roe.
彼女が最も気に入ったのは数の子でした。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English *hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugną (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“(frog) spawn”). Cognate with Dutch roge (“roe”), German Low German Rögen (“roe”), German Rogen (“roe”), Danish rogn, ravn (“roe”), Swedish rom (“roe”), Icelandic hrogn (“roe”), Lithuanian kurkulai̇̃ (“frog spawn”), Russian кряк (krjak, “frog spawn”).