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”)

 

Related terms

• urt

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

 

Related terms

• jurt

Etymology 2

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), 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-.

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
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
rót also rrót after a proclitic ending in a vowel	rót pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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

Old Norse

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

• 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
    • Scots: ruit, rute

Vietnamese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zɔt̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐɔk̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹɔk̚˦˥]

Verb

rót • (𣹕)

1. to pour, to fill up