röd

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rod"

Swedish

röda körsbär [red cherries]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /røːd/, (colloquial) /røː/

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• Rhymes: -øːd, -øː

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish rø̄þer, from Old Norse rauðr, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós < *h₁rewdʰ-.

Adjective

röd (comparative rödare, superlative rödast)

1. red

   ett rött skärp ― a red belt

2. (politics) of or pertaining to leftist (communist, socialist) politics and politicians

Declension

Inflection of röd

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	röd	rödare	rödast
neuter singular	rött	rödare	rödast
plural	röda	rödare	rödast
masculine plural2	röde	rödare	rödast
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	röde	rödare	rödaste
all	röda	rödare	rödaste

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Hypernyms

• färg

Derived terms

• blodröd
• karmosinröd
• röda hund
• rödfotad
• rödhuvad
• röding
• rödkål
• rödräv
• rödstjärtad
• rödvin
• rödögd
• rött
• scharlakansröd
• tegelröd

See also

Colors in Swedish · färger (layout · text)

vit	grå	svart
röd; karmosin, karmosinröd	orange; brun	gul; beige
limegrön	grön
cyan (rare) turkos (common); teal	azur	blå
lila; indigo	magenta; purpur	rosa (common), skär (uncommon)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Swedish ruþ, riuþ, ryþ. Possible folk etymological reasons behind transition to röd (“red”).

Noun

röd c

1. (Scania, Bohuslän) Alternative form of ryd.

References

• röd in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svenskt ortnamnslexikon (2016), page 261, by Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages

Anagrams

• dör