Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/rooko

This Proto-Finnic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Finnic

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Baltic *drōgas (whence Old Prussian drogis (“reed”)), or less likely from Germanic (compare Proto-West Germanic *brōk).

Noun

*rooko

1. reed (Phragmites)

Inflection

Inflection of *rooko

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*rooko	*roogot
accusative		*roogon	*roogot
genitive		*roogon	*rookodën *rookoidën
partitive		*rookoda	*rookoida
inessive		*roogossa *roogohna	*roogoissa *roogoihna
elative		*roogosta	*roogoista
illative		*rookohën	*rookoihën
adessive		*roogolla	*roogoilla
ablative		*roogolta	*roogoilta
allative		*rookolën *rookolëk	*rookoilën *rookoilëk
essive		*rookona	*rookoina
translative		*roogoksi	*roogoiksi
instructive		*roogon	*roogoin
comitative		*rookonëk	*rookoinëk
abessive		*roogotta	*roogoitta

Descendants

• Estonian: roog
• Finnish: ruoko
• Ingrian: rooko, rooku
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: ruoko
  • South Karelian: ruogo
• Livonian: rūogõz
• Livvi: ruogo
• Ludian: ruog
• Veps: rogo
• Võro: ruug
• Votic: rooko
• →? Proto-Samic: *ruokō (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “roog”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012