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raia.

ray (a marine fish with a flat body)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈraj.ja]Classical-Latin[ˈraː.ja]
  1. ray (a marine fish with a flat body)

    declension-1 · feminine
Where this word comes from

Hypothetically from a Proto-Italic *rajjā (perhaps < *ragjā), with unknown further origin. Parallels can be found in Germanic: Middle Dutch rogghe/rochghe (Dutch rog) and Middle Low German rugge, from Western Proto-Germanic *rugg-, as well as Old English reohhe, Middle English reyhhe, reȝge, rygh all meaning "ray". Taken together with the Latin, these forms could point to a dialectal Proto-Indo-European *raK- ~ *ruK- (“ray”); however, the phonetic correspondences are unusual even within Germanic, and this could indicate a shared loanword or substrate origin for both the Germanic and Latin.

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