Borrowed from Old East Norse *roþs- (possibly as part of the word *rōþskarl, *rōþsmän (“rower”)), from Old Norse róðr, from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą. The name is related to the name of Roden (Roslagen), a region in eastern Sweden.
This term is not traditionally reconstructed to Proto-Finnic, as most traditional chronologies date Proto-Finnic to be older than this word (from the eighth-ninth century AD). According to Kallio (2014) however, this word is at least Common Finnic, being among some of the final words common between all Finnic languages.[1]
*roocci
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
singular | plural | ||
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nominative | *roocci | *rooc'it | |
accusative | *rooc'in | *rooc'it | |
genitive | *rooc'in | *rooccidën *rooccëjidën | |
partitive | *rooccida | *rooccëjita | |
inessive | *rooc'issa *rooc'ihna |
*rooccëjissa *rooccëjihna | |
elative | *rooc'ista | *rooccëjista | |
illative | *rooccihën | *rooccëjisën | |
adessive | *rooc'illa | *rooccëjilla | |
ablative | *rooc'ilta | *rooccëjilta | |
allative | *rooccilën *rooccilëk |
*rooccëjilën *rooccëjilëk | |
essive | *rooccina | *rooccëjina | |
translative | *rooc'iksi | *rooccëjiksi | |
instructive | *rooc'in | *rooccëjin | |
comitative | *rooccinëk | *rooccëjinëk | |
abessive | *rooc'itta | *rooccëjitta |