rót
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse rót (“root”), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”); compare with English wort and the Latin rādīx (“root”). Cognate with the Icelandic rót; Old English rōt (whence the Middle English word root (“the underground part of a plant”) came, whence the English root came).
Pronunciation
Noun
rót f (genitive singular rótar, plural røtur)
Declension
| Declension of rót | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| f12 | singular | plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | rót | rótin | røtur | røturnar |
| accusative | rót | rótina | røtur | røturnar |
| dative | rót | rótini | rótum | rótunum |
| genitive | rótar | rótarinnar | róta | rótanna |
Derived terms
Related terms
Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
rót
- accusative singular of ró
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse rót (“root”), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”); compare with English wort and the Latin rādīx (“root”). Cognate with the Faroese rót; Old English rōt (whence the Middle English word root (“the underground part of a plant”) came, whence the English root came).
Noun
rót f (genitive singular rótar, nominative plural rætur)
- (botany) root
- the roots of something, the beginning or origin
- Rætur fjallsins eru grasi vaxnar.
- The foot of the mountain is covered with grass.
- (mathematics) root
- (linguistics) root
- Hvernig finnur maður rót nafnorða?
- How does one find the root of nouns?
Declension
Derived terms
- breyta frá rótum
- eiga rætur að rekja til
- festa rætur
- kalmusrót f (“sweet flag, calamus”)
- kvaðratrót f (“square root”)
- undirrót
Related terms
Etymology 2
Noun
rót n (genitive singular róts, no plural)
Declension
Old Irish
Etymology
According to Alexander MacBain, a Germanic borrowing from Middle English roade (see modern English road), but 9th century Sanas Cormaic suggests the word was originally disyllabic in Old Irish—rout, IPA(key): /ro.ud/—(as it is in Scottish Gaelic rathad), deriving it from ro-ṡét, from ro- (“very, great”) + sét (“path”), from Proto-Celtic *φro-sentu-.
Pronunciation
Noun
rót m
Inflection
| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | rót | rótL | róitL |
| Vocative | róit | rótL | rótuH |
| Accusative | rótN | rótL | rótuH |
| Genitive | róitL | rót | rótN |
| Dative | routL | rótaib | rótaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| rót also rrót after a proclitic |
rót pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “rathad”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page 288
- ^ Paul Russell, Sharon Arbuthnot, Pádraic Moran (2023 November 29 (last accessed)) Early Irish Glossaries Database, University of Cambridge, page 109
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 rót”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Norse
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wrōts.
Noun
rót f
- (literal and figurative senses) root
Declension
Descendants
- Icelandic: rót
- Faroese: rót
- Norwegian: rot
- Old Swedish: rōt
- Swedish: rot
- Danish: rod
- Gutnish: rot
- → Old English: rōt
Vietnamese
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic *-rɔːc (“to fill up”). Compare Proto-Palaungic *rɔːc (“to drip, to leak”) (whence Riang ruac² ("to leak")).