róðr
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Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *rōþrą. Compare the verb róa (“to row”). Scandinavian form: *rōþʀ (*rōþrʀ) actually seems to have come from the masculine gender *rōþruz/*rōþraz instead of the neutral *rōþrą, less likely from the hypothetical genitive.
Noun
[edit]róðr ?
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: róður
- Faroese: róður
- Old East Norse:
- Old Swedish: roþer
- → Proto-Finnic: *roocci[1] (from the genitive *roþs-)
- Estonian: Rootsi; roots (archaic)
- Finnish: Ruotsi; ruotsi (archaic)
- Meänkieli: Ruotti
- Ingrian: rootsi
- Karelian: ruočči, Ruočči
- Livonian: rūotš, Rūotšmō
- Livvi: ruočči, Ruočči
- Ludian: ruoč
- Veps: Ročinma
- Võro: ruuts', Roodsi
- Votic: roottsi
- → Northern Sami: ruošˈša, Ruošˈša; ruoŧŧa, Ruoŧŧa
- →? Old East Slavic: Роусь (Rusĭ) (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-Permic:
References
[edit]- róður inGeir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press