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rough
rough:
[OE]
Rough
goes back to a prehistoric West Germanic *
rūkhwaz
, which also produced German
rauh
and Dutch
ruw
. Despite the similarity of form and sense,
ruffian
is not related, and there is no evidence that
ruffle
is either.