ruočči

From Proto-Finnic *roocci. Cognates include Finnish ruotsi and Estonian roots.

The original sense was restricted to Germanic people, but over time the focus shifted from ethnicity to religion, at which point the word started being used to also describe the Lutheran Finns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈruo̯t͡ʃːi/
• Hyphenation: ruoč‧či

ruočči (genitive ruočin, partitive ruoččie)

1. Swedish language
2. (rare) Synonym of ruoččilaini/ruoččilaine (“Swede”)
3. (South Karelian) Short for ruoččiheinä (“thistle”).
4. (dated, often derogatory) Synonym of šuomi (“Finnish”)
5. (ethnic slur, often derogatory) Synonym of šuomelaini/šuomelaine (“Finn”)

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “ruočči”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “ruottši”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *roocci, from Old East Norse (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more).

ruočči

1. the Swedish language
2. (ethnic slur, often derogatory) Synonym of suomelaine (“Finn”)
3. (outdated, often derogatory) Synonym of suomi (“Finnish”)

• (Swedish): svinskoi