Rootsi

See also: Roodsi and Ruotsi

Estonian

Etymology

From Old Swedish *roþs- (“related to rowing”); related to Old Norse Roþrslandi (“the land of rowing”), older name of Roslagen, where the Finns and Swedes first met, from roðr (“steering oar”), from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą (“rudder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Cognate to Finnish Ruotsi, Livvi Ruočči (“Finland”), Ludian ruoťš́ (“Finland, Sweden, a Finn, a Lutheran”), English Russia.

Proper noun

Rootsi

  1. Sweden
  2. Rootsi (the name of some villages in Estonia)

Declension
Inflection of Rootsi (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative Rootsi Rootsid
accusative Rootsi Rootsid
genitive Rootsi Rootside
partitive Rootsit Rootsisid
illative Rootsi
Rootsisse		 Rootsidesse
inessive Rootsis Rootsides
elative Rootsist Rootsidest
allative Rootsile Rootsidele
adessive Rootsil Rootsidel
ablative Rootsilt Rootsidelt
translative Rootsiks Rootsideks
terminative Rootsini Rootsideni
essive Rootsina Rootsidena
abessive Rootsita Rootsideta
comitative Rootsiga Rootsidega
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