rootsi

Estonian

Etymology

See Rootsi.

Adjective

rootsi

  1. Swedish

Usage notes

Does not decline.

Ingrian

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 (“Sweden”) and Livvi ruočči (“a Lutheran, a Finn, a Swede”).

Adjective

rootsi (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. Lutheran

Inflection

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