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raia

raia

a sea-fish, ray

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Where it lives

  • Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. raia — de Vaan

raia 'a sea-fish, ray' [f. a] (Plin.) Pit. *ragja- or *rajja-. IE cognates: MDu. rogghe, rochghe, MoDu. rag, MLG rugge 'ray' < PGm. *rugg-> rapio OE reohhe (once in a gloss), ME rezge, reyhhe 'ray' < *τεγχε (or *Γαχχ/α-Ί). Rata must be interpreted as IrajjaL Whether the English words for 'ray' can go back to *Γαχχ- is disputed; if they do, we have an interchange a/u within Germanic. In the absence of any further … — [de Vaan, s.v. raia, p. 526]

2. raia — Lewis & Short

raia, ae, f.,

I a sea-fish, the ray, Plin. 9, 24, 40, § 78; 9, 42, 67, § 144.

3. raia — Walde–Hofmann

raia, -ae f. „ein Fisch, Rochen“ (seit Plin.; daraus entl. frz. raie, engl ray usw.): Herkunft unklar; kaum als „Stachelrochen (Strahlrochen)" aus *radja, zu radius (vgl. Leumann-Stolz* 155). Etr. Herkunft (Fohalle Mél. Thomas 298 zw.) kommt kaum in Frage. Fern bleibt mnd, roche, ruche (daraus nhd. Rochen, Kluge!!s. v.), mengl. reighe, roughe „Rochen“ (Vanitek 231; ags. hreohehe ist nach Sievers falsche Form für … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. raia, p. 1321]

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Where it came from

  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. raia (scan pp. 526-527; entry #1461). Root candidates: *ragja-, *rajja-, *rugg-.
  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. raia (scan p. 587; entry #9635).
  • Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. raia (scan p. 1321; entry #2233).

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.