- ROÐ
- I)n. fish skin (rífa fisk ór roði).II)n. reddening, making or becoming red (cf. hlunn-, sólar-roð).* * *n. a fish’s skin (from the reddish colour), Eb. 276; roð af fiski, Clem. 25: freq. in mod. usage, þorsk-roð, háfs-roð, skötu-roð, steinbíts-roð, etc.2. reddening, in hlunn-roð, sólar-roð.II. [a different word], clearing; flótta roð, Fas. iii. 340; flet-roð, q. v.; see ruð, rjóðtr, ryðja, hrjóða.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.