rót

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rot"

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
  • IPA(key): [ɹɔuːt]

Noun

rót f (genitive singular rótar, plural røtur)

  1. root

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
  • gularót f (“carrot”)
  • hvannrót
  • piparrót f (“horseradish”)
  • reyðrót f (“beetroot”)
  • rótafræ
  • rótakál
  • rótaslag n (“specific root vegetable, type of root vegetable; root vegetable species”)
  • sopprót f (“mycorrhiza”)
  • sukurrót
  • tannrót
  • trærót f (“tree root”)

Hungarian

Etymology

ró +‎ -t

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈroːt]

Noun

rót

  1. accusative singular of ró

Icelandic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /rouːt/
  • Rhymes: -ouːt

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)

  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?
Declension
declension of rót
f-s3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rót rótin rætur ræturnar
accusative rót rótina rætur ræturnar
dative rót rótinni rótum rótunum
genitive rótar rótarinnar róta rótanna
Derived terms
  • breyta frá rótum
  • eiga rætur að rekja til
  • festa rætur
  • kalmusrót f (“sweet flag, calamus”)
  • kvaðratrót f (“square root”)
  • undirrót

Noun

rót n (genitive singular róts, no plural)

  1. commotion
  2. powerful movement
Declension
declension of rót
n-s singular
indefinite definite
nominative rót rótið
accusative rót rótið
dative róti rótinu
genitive róts rótsins

Old Irish

Etymology

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]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /r͈oːd/

Noun

rót m

  1. road
  2. highway

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:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

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

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
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
  1. MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “rathad”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page 288
  2. Paul Russell, Sharon Arbuthnot, Pádraic Moran (2023 November 29 (last accessed)) Early Irish Glossaries Database‎, University of Cambridge, page 109

Further reading

Old Norse

Alternative forms
  • vrót

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wrōts.

Noun

rót f

  1. (literal and figurative senses) root

Declension
  Declension of rót (strong consonant stem)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rót rótin rœtr rœtrnar
accusative rót rótina rœtr rœtrnar
dative rót rótinni rótum rótunum
genitive rótar rótarinnar róta rótanna

Descendants

Vietnamese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

rót • (𣹕)

  1. to pour, to fill up
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