Talk:roon

RFV discussion: June 2023–January 2024

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roon

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 rand 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)