rót

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).

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rót f (genitive singular rótar, plural røtur)

1. root

• urt

ró +‎ -t

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rót

1. accusative singular of ró

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• IPA^(key): /rouːt/
• Rhymes: -ouːt

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).

rót f (genitive singular rótar, nominative plural rætur)

1. (botany) root
2. the roots of something, the beginning or origin

   Rætur fjallsins eru grasi vaxnar.

   The foot of the mountain is covered with grass.

3. (mathematics) root
4. (linguistics) root

   Hvernig finnur maður rót nafnorða?

   How does one find the root of nouns?

• jurt

rót n (genitive singular róts, no plural)

1. commotion
2. powerful movement

According to Alexander MacBain, a Germanic borrowing from Middle English roade (see modern English road),^[1] 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-.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /r͈oːd/

rót m

1. road
2. highway

• Irish: ród
• Manx: raad
• Scottish Gaelic: rathad

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 rót”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Germanic *wrōts.

rót f

1. (literal and figurative senses) root

• Icelandic: rót
• Faroese: rót
• Norwegian: rot
• Old Swedish: rōt
  • Swedish: rot
• Danish: rod
• Gutnish: rot
• → Old English: rōt
  • Middle English: rote, root, roote, rot, rotæ
    • English: root
      • → Irish: rúta
    • Scots: ruit, rute

From Proto-Vietic *-rɔːc (“to fill up”). Compare Proto-Palaungic *rɔːc (“to drip, to leak”) (whence Riang ruac² ("to leak")).

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rót • (𣹕, 律, 𢯰)

1. to pour; to fill up (a container)

   rót nước đầy li ― to fill up a cup with water