rother

What it means

1. obsoleteA horned animal, especially an ox.

In a sentence

Burwash, spread along a ridge between the rivers Rother and Dudwell, was an important centre of the iron industry three centuries ago when the Weald was England's main source of iron ore.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 98

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Germanic*hrunþaz
2. Old Englishhrūþer
3. Middle Englishrother
4. Englishrother

From Middle English rother, ruther, reother, from Old English hrūþer, hrȳþer, byforms of hrīþer, hrīþ (“neat; ox”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunþaz, *hrinþaz. Cognate with Dutch rund (“bovine”), German Rind (“bovine; beef”).