roial (comparative more roial, superlative most roial)

1. Archaic spelling of royal.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:roial.

• Loria, airol

roial

1. alternative form of royal
   • Late 14th century: This Cambyuskan, of which I have yow toold, / In roial vestiment sit on his deys — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

roial m (feminine singular roiale, masculine plural roials, feminine plural roiales)

1. alternative form of royal

• regiel (9th c.)
• reiel, riel
• reial, reall, reau, rial, riall, ryal, raial
• roal, roiall, royal, royaul, roiaut
• royel

From Latin rēgālem. The original ending -el was progressively substituted by the more Latinate -al. Doublet of regal, which was entirely borrowed from Latin.

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /rei̯ˈjeːl/, /ri-/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /roi̯ˈjal/, /-ˈjeːl/, /ri-/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ro̯ɛˈjal/, /-ˈjel/, /ri-/

roial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular roial or roiale)

1. royal

opm=roiaus
ssm=[[roiaus]]

• roi

• Middle French: royal, roial, real
  • French: royal
• Norman: rial
• →? Italian: reale
  • →? Friulian: reâl
• → Middle English: royal, roial, roiall, royall, royalle, roialle, roall
  • English: royal
  • Scots: royal
• → Middle English: ryal, real, rial, reall, riol, ryol, riel
  • English: rial, ryal
  • Scots: rial, ryal

• roial on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “regalis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 201