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roof
roof:
[OE] The antecedents of
roof
are far from clear. Its only surviving relative seems to be Dutch
roef
‘cabin, coffin lid’, and although it also had links with Old Norse
hróf
‘boat-shed’, its ultimate origins remain a mystery.