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单词 rown
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rownn.

Brit. /raʊn/, U.S. /raʊn/, Scottish English /rɔn/, /rʌʊn/, Irish English /raʊn/
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α. late Middle English rowne, 1700s rown; English regional (northern) 1800s– rowan, 1800s– rown; Scottish pre-1700 roune, pre-1700 rowin, pre-1700 1800s roun, 1700s roon, 1700s rown, 1700s– rowan, 1900s– rowen; Irish English (northern) 1900s– rowan, 1900s– rown.

β. late Middle English rownd; English regional 1800s– round (East Anglian), 1800s– rownd.

Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic hrogn , Norwegian rogn , Old Swedish rughn , romn (Swedish rom ), Danish rogn (in early modern Danish as roughen , ruhen )), cognate with Middle Low German rōgen , Old High German rōgan (Middle High German rōgen , German Rogen ), further etymology uncertain, perhaps ultimately < the same Indo-European base as Lithuanian kurkulas , Russian (regional) krek , krjak , Polish skrzek frogspawn, Slovene okrak waterweed. Compare roe n.2 and the Germanic forms cited at that entry. Compare slightly earlier rawn n.In β. forms with excrescent -d after final -n (compare bound adj.1, sound n.3, etc., and see further E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §436). N.E.D. (1910) also records a lemma rowning-time ‘spawning season’, but the quotation cited as evidence (with the form rounding time in a Norfolk source) appears to show a misreading or typographical error for rouding time n.
Now English regional (chiefly northern), Scottish, and Irish English (northern).
1.
a. In singular and plural. The roe of a fish, esp. a female fish (= roe n.2 a).
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α.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 438 Rowne, of a fysche, liquamen.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 105 v A Rowne of ffysche, lactis, lactes.
c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Cijv Ye hie fische spawnis his meltis. And ye scho fische hir rounis. And incontinent coueris thaym ouir with sand.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 50 The hie Salmonte haueng castne the meltis, and the sche salmonte the Rounis.
1609 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1870) II. 284 And nane to be packit bot sufficient hering full of melt and rowins haifing heids and taillis.
1777 E. Marshall Young Ladies' Guide Art Cookery 85 After your carp is gutted and washed clean, cut it in pieces, and fry it brown; save the rowns and melts, and fry them also to garnish with.
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. at Milts Herrings..with milts, are said to be the male herring, the other with rowns, the female.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Rowan, Rown, the roe of a fish.
1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. Rown, the roe or spawn of fish.
β. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 765 Laquamen, rownd. 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. 417 Rownd, the roe or spawn of fish.1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Rownd, the roe of fish.1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia 181 Round, the roe or ‘milt’ of herring.
b. A female fish. Obsolete. rare.
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1796 J. Lauderdale Coll. Poems Sc. Dial. 64 As lang's ye pay our annual fees, In milts an' rowns.
2. Scottish. More fully rown-fluke. The turbot, Scophthalmus maximus. Cf. rawn-fluke n. at rawn n. Compounds, roan-fluke n. at roan n.3 Compounds, rodden fluke n.
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1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IX. 337 Formerly there was a very plentiful fishing upon the coast here [sc. St Monans, Fife], consisting of cod, ling, haddock, rowan or turbot, skait, &c... But..none are now caught but a few cod, rowan, and skait.
1806 J. Stark Picture of Edinb. 429 Holibut, (here called turbot), and the true Turbot (here called rowan-fleuk) are pretty common during summer.
1989 R. A. Watt Gloss. Sc. Dial. Fish & Trade Names 18 Rowan, turbot.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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