ruw

Noun

 * 1) a  bone

Etymology 1
From, , , from , , from. The original stem ended in -h-, which disappeared between vowels, giving in the inflected forms in Old Dutch. This then gave rise to an alternative uninflected form, which developed into Middle Dutch , , modern Dutch ,. The original uninflected form was back-formed to based on other words with -ch in the uninflected form and -g- in inflected forms, similar to what happened to.

Adjective

 * 1) rough, crude, harsh not gentle
 * 2) raw, crude unprocessed
 * 1) raw, crude unprocessed