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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.
róður inGeir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
^ Kallio, Petri: The Diversification of Proto-Finnic Joonas Ahola & Frog (eds.), Fibula, Fabula, Fact: The Viking Age in Finland, pp. 155-168. Studia Fennica Historica 18 (2014)