Rother
/ˈrɒðə(r)/noun
An archaic word meaning cattle or a herd of cattle, and in another historical sense a loud disturbance or tumult.
Did you know?Rother preserves an Old English cattle-word that largely vanished from everyday English, surviving mainly in dialect and historical writing.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
Old English
rūþor
“Cattle or a herd of cattle”
Middle English
Middle English
rother
“Cattle, especially a herd or group of beasts”
Middle English
Middle English
rotheren
“To make a tumultuous noise or disturbance”
15th–16th Century
English
rother
“A loud commotion, uproar, or confused noise”
Modern English
English
rother
“An obsolete or dialectal term for cattle, or historically, a noisy disturbance”