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rownn.Brit. /raʊn/, U.S. /raʊn/, Scottish English /rɔn/, /rʌʊn/, Irish English /raʊn/ 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. the world > animals > fish > [noun] > spawn α. (Harl. 221) 438 Rowne, of a fysche, liquamen. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 105 v A Rowne of ffysche, lactis, lactes. c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece 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 (1888) I. 50 The hie Salmonte haueng castne the meltis, and the sche salmonte the Rounis. 1609 in J. D. Marwick (1870) II. 284 And nane to be packit bot sufficient hering full of melt and rowins haifing heids and taillis. 1777 E. Marshall 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 at Milts Herrings..with milts, are said to be the male herring, the other with rowns, the female. 1894 R. O. Heslop Rowan, Rown, the roe of a fish. 1928 A. E. Pease Rown, the roe or spawn of fish. β. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 765 Laquamen, rownd. 1868 J. C. Atkinson 417 Rownd, the roe or spawn of fish.1876 F. K. Robinson Rownd, the roe of fish.1895 W. Rye 181 Round, the roe or ‘milt’ of herring.the world > animals > fish > [noun] > female 1796 J. Lauderdale 64 As lang's ye pay our annual fees, In milts an' rowns. 1793 J. Sinclair 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 429 Holibut, (here called turbot), and the true Turbot (here called rowan-fleuk) are pretty common during summer. 1989 R. A. Watt 18 Rowan, turbot. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1440 |