russ

Probably from Latin depositurus.

• IPA^(key): /rʉs/

russ m (plural russen)

1. last-semester high school student (or student at an institution of a similar education level), particularly one that takes part in associated celebrations and activities (often including heavily consuming alcohol)

From Slavic languages. Cf. German Russe.

russ m (definite singular russen, indefinite plural russar, definite plural russane)

1. a Russian
2. (collective) the Russian people

• russar

• russehandel
• russenorsk

• “russ” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *hrussą, (compare Icelandic hross, English horse, Old English hors, West Frisian hoars, Dutch ros, German Ross (“steed”)). From Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sos (compare Welsh car (“wagon”), Latin currus (“chariot”)), from *ḱers- (“to run”) (compare English hurry).

russ n

1. a horse (equine mammal)

• The word is still somewhat used in two dialects, Gotlandic and the dialect of Bohuslän.

• Swedish: Gotlandsruss

• russ in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

From Old Swedish russ, from Old Norse hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-. Doublet of karriär and kärra.

russ n

1. (dialect) a horse
2. a horse of the race Gotland pony / gotlandsruss

• gotlandsruss
• skogsbagge

• russavel
• russfängsel
• russföl
• russhingst
• russhäst
• russras
• russto
• russtuteri

• russ in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• russ in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• russ in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)