ruw.
rough, crude, harsh (not gentle)
Meaning & usage
rough, crude, harsh (not gentle)
raw, crude (unprocessed)
De ruwe suiker wordt hier binnengebracht.
Dit is een bijproduct van ruwe olie.
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch ruuch, ru, rou, from Old Dutch *rūh, *rū, from Proto-Germanic *rūhwaz. The original stem ended in -h-, which disappeared between vowels, giving *rū- in the inflected forms in Old Dutch. This then gave rise to an alternative uninflected form *rū, which developed into Middle Dutch ru, rou, modern Dutch ruw, rouw. The original uninflected form was back-formed to ruig based on other words with -ch in the uninflected form and -g- in inflected forms, similar to what happened to hoog.
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