rooi

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rood, whose inflected form is rooie in various Dutch vernaculars. In Afrikaans the same alternation would be expected (cf. dood or goed), but the inflected stem was generalized (probably by analogy with other common colour adjectives, which are regularly unchanged in the attributive form).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /roːi̯ ~ ruə̯j/
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Adjective

rooi (attributive rooi or (seldom) rooie, comparative rooier, superlative rooiste)

  1. red

Inflection

Inflection of rooi
  predicative attributive independent partitive
singular plural
positive rooi rooi, rooie rooie rooies roois
comparative rooier rooiere rooieres rooiers
superlative rooiste rooistes —

Derived terms

See also

Colors in Afrikaans · kleure (layout · text)
     wit      grys      swart
             rooi; karmosyn              oranje; bruin              geel; room
             lemmetjie              groen              mentgroen
             siaan; teel              asuur, hemelsblou              blou
             violet; indigo              magenta; pers              pienk

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From rood through vocalisation of intervocalic -d- (in inflected forms).

Adjective

rooi (comparative rooier, superlative rooist)

  1. (informal, chiefly attributive) Alternative form of rood (“red”)
Declension
Declension of rooi
uninflected rooi
inflected rooie
comparative rooier
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial rooi rooier het rooist
het rooiste
indefinite m./f. sing. rooie rooiere rooiste
n. sing. rooi rooier rooiste
plural rooie rooiere rooiste
definite rooie rooiere rooiste
partitive roois rooiers —

Etymology 2

Verb

rooi

  1. inflection of rooien:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

  • roi (alternative spelling)

Etymology

From Spanish arroyo.

Noun

rooi

  1. creek; A dry creek, that fills with water after rainfall.
  2. gulch
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