rawe
Middle English
/rau̯/
adj
Definitions
- raw not subject to cooking or heating
- raw, unprocessed, unfiltered not subject to processing or refinement
- (usually referring to one's skin) wounded, hurt, punctured
- (usually referring to one's bodily parts) vulnerable, visible, bare
- (figurative) young, primitive, rough, simple
- (rare) unripened, immature
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hrēaw (uncooked, raw) inherited from *hrau inherited from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz (uncooked, raw) derived from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (blood of a wound, fresh blood, raw meat, blood outside the body).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*krewh₂-
Gloss
blood of a wound, fresh blood, raw meat, blood outside the body
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nonraw English
- raw English
- raw data English
- rawboned English
- rawhide English
- rawish English
- rawism English
- rawist English
- rawly English
- rawness English
- rawstock English
- semiraw English
- cruor Latin
- crūdus Latin
- recrūdēscēns Latin
- *krewh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *hrawaz Proto-Germanic
- *hreusaną Proto-Germanic
- hreaw Old English
- hrēaw Old English
- ra Middle English
- raw Middle English
- rowe Middle English
- hrár Old Norse
- *kry Proto-Slavic
- brahaigne Old French
- rao Old High German
- rāo Old High German
- *hrau gmw-pro
- *rao Old Dutch
- *raaka Proto-Finnic
- *kroudis Proto-Celtic
- *krowdi- Proto-Celtic
- kraujas Lithuanian
- *krū́ˀs Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *bragos Gaulish
- kraus Samogitian