Talk:roon

RFV discussion: June 2023–January 2024
Rfv-sense: red PlusUmlaut (talk) 08:29, 20 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I have trouble reconciling the adjective sense "red" with Drake's use. Century's definitions for this word are worth reproducing in full here:
 * roon1, a. An obsolete form of roan1.
 * roon2, n. [A dial. form of rund, < Icel.
 * rönd, rim, border, stripe, = E. rand: see rand1.]
 * A border; edge; selvage. [Scotch.]
 * In thae auld times, they thought the moon . ..
 * Wore by degrees, till her last roon
 * Gaed past their viewing.
 * Burns, To W. Simpson (Postscript).
 * Her face was like the lily roon
 * That veils the vestal planer's hue.
 * J. R. Drake, Culprit Fay.
 * [Roon in this passage is usually explained as 'vermilion,'
 * apparently after Halliwell, who defines the Middle Eng-
 * lish roon, properly 'roan,' in one passage as 'vermilion.']
 * So perhaps this is really an alternative form of sense 3. This, that and the other (talk) 00:26, 7 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Failed + deleted. Quotekept Phacromallus (talk) 12:35, 22 January 2024 (UTC)