# roi
## Bahnar
### Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *rɔːj, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruj ~ *ruuj ~ *ruəj ~ *ruhaj (“fly (insect)”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɔːj/

### Noun

roi
* fly

## Bourguignon
### Etymology

From Late Latin rex.

### Noun

roi m (plural rois, feminine roine)
* king

## French
### Alternative forms

* roy (obsolete) (pre-1800)

### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French roy, from Old French roi, rei, from Latin rēgem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁwa/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: Roy, rois, roua, rouas, rouât
* Rhymes: -a

### Noun

roi m (plural rois, feminine reine)
* king
    Le roi est mort.The king is dead.
* (chess) king
* (card games) king

#### Derived terms

* au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois
* être plus royaliste que le roi
* fête des Rois
* Filles du Roi
* fou du roi
* galette des rois
* procureur du roi
* roi des animaux
* roi des cailles
* roi des oiseaux
* roi fainéant
* roi mage
* royaume
* Vallée des rois

#### Related terms

* régalien
* reine
* royal
* royaume
* royauté

#### Descendants

* Antillean Creole: wa
* Guianese Creole: rwè
* Haitian Creole: wa
** (perhaps) ⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
*** → English: loa
* Karipúna Creole French: hué
* Louisiana Creole: rwa
* Seychellois Creole: lerwa

### See also

Chess pieces in French · pièces d’échecs (layout · text) :
| roi | dame | tour | fou | cavalier | pion |
Playing cards in French · cartes à jouer (layout · text) :
| as | deux | trois | quatre | cinq | six | sept |
| huit | neuf | dix | valet | dame | roi | joker |

### Further reading

* “roi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* rex (9th century)
* rei
* rai (Le Roman de Tristan, Thomas d'Angleterre)
* roy

### Etymology

From Latin rēgem.

### Pronunciation

* (archaic) IPA: /ˈrei̯/
* (classical) IPA: /ˈroi̯/, (northern) /ˈrei̯/
* (late) IPA: /ˈro̯ɛ/, (northern) /ˈrɛ/

### Noun

roi oblique singular, m (oblique plural rois, nominative singular rois, nominative plural roi)
* king
* (chess) king

#### Related terms

* roial
* reaume

#### Descendants

* Middle French: roy
** French: roi, roy (obsolete) (pre-1800)
*** Antillean Creole: wa
*** Guianese Creole: rwè
*** Haitian Creole: wa
**** (perhaps) ⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
***** → English: loa
*** Karipúna Creole French: hué
*** Louisiana Creole: rwa
*** Seychellois Creole: lerwa
* Norman:
    Continental Normandy: rai, ré, rey
    Guernsey: ré, roué
    Jersey: rouai
    Sark: rwe
* Walloon: roy, rwè
* → Middle English: roy, roye
** English: roy

## Papiamentu
### Alternative forms

* rooi (alternative spelling)

### Etymology

From Spanish arroyo.

### Noun

roi
A dry creek, that fills with water after rainfall.
* creek
* gulch

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɔ.i/
* Rhymes: -ɔi
* Syllabification: ro‧i

### Verb

roi
* third-person singular present of roić

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic рои (roi), from Proto-Slavic *rojь. Compare Czech roj, Slovak roj and Serbo-Croatian roj.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -oj

### Noun

roi n (plural roiuri)
* swarm

#### Declension
## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [zɔj˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʐɔj˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ɹɔj˧˧]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *p-rɔːj. Cognate with Chut [Rục] brɔːj¹, Kha Phong urɔːj.

#### Noun

(classifier cây, cái) roi • (鞕, 𩍢)
* whip, rod
* (zoology) flagellum

##### Derived terms

* trùng roi

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

(classifier cây, trái, quả) roi
* (Northern Vietnam) wax apple (Syzygium samarangense)
    Synonym: mận

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɔi̯/

### Verb

roi
* Soft mutation of rhoi.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.