See also: Roth and roð

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Adjective

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roth (strong nominative masculine singular rother, comparative röther or rother, superlative am röthesten or am rothesten)

  1. Obsolete spelling of rot (red).

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish roth,[1] from Proto-Celtic *rotos (wheel, chariot), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂-.

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Noun

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roth m (genitive singular rotha, nominative plural rothaí)

  1. (architecture, heraldry, mechanical engineering, pyrotechnics) wheel (multiple senses)
  2. (familiar) bicycle

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References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “roth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 58

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *rotos (wheel, chariot), from Proto-Indo-European *Hróth₂os (compare Latin rota (wheel), Sanskrit रथ (rátha, chariot) and Old High German rad (wheel)).

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Noun

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roth m

  1. wheel
  2. disc
  3. sphere

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative roth rothL roithL
Vocative roith rothL rothuH
Accusative rothN rothL rothuH
Genitive roithL roth rothN
Dative routhL, rothL rothaib rothaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

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Descendants

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  • Irish: roth
  • Scottish Gaelic: roth

Mutation

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

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish roth, from Proto-Celtic *rotos (wheel, chariot), from Proto-Indo-European *Hroth₂os.

Noun

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roth m (genitive singular rotha, plural rothan)

  1. wheel
    roth a' mhuilinnthe mill-wheel
    roth-cartacha cart-wheel
    roth mórthe driving-wheel of spinning-wheel
    eadar na rothanbetween the wheels
  2. rim (of a wheel)
  3. halo
    Tha roth mun ghealaich.There is a halo round the moon.

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