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Inherited from Middle English *rode (“clearing”), from Old English rodu (“clearing”), from Proto-West Germanic *rodu, variant of *rod, from Proto-Germanic *rudą, from *reudaną (“to clear”).

Compare German Rodung, from German roden (“to clear”).

noun royds · rod

Yorkshire, dialectal A forest clearing. From what has been said it will be obvious that the names of other animals, such as deer, must enter largely into the composition of local names. We may see this in Darlands, sometimes written Dare-lands and Deer Lands, in Ecclesfield, and in the adjacent Doe Royd, a royd being a forest clearing. De
Similar: riding, thwaite, assart

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@misc{royd_2026,
  title = {royd},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/royd},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}