Rootsi

See also: rootsi

Estonian

Rootsi kaart

Etymology

From archaic roots (“Swede”), from Proto-Finnic *roocci (around 8th-9th century AD; very late, possibly even post-Proto-Finnic), borrowed from Old East Norse *roþs- (“related to rowing”) (compare Old Swedish *roþs-, modern Swedish ro (“to row”)), possibly as part of the word rōþskarl, rōþsmän (“rower”). The name is also connected to Old Norse Roþrslandi (“the land of rowing”), the older name of Roslagen. The word is ultimately from Old Norse róðr (“steering oar”), from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą (“rudder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”).

Finnic cognates include Finnish Ruotsi, Livvi Ruočči (“(Lutheran) Finland”), Veps Ročinma and Võro Roodsi. Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ) (whence Byzantine Greek Ρωσσία (Rōssía)), the original form of the endonym of Russians that originally referred to a tribe of Varangians, is borrowed from Finnic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroˑtsi/, [ˈroˑtsʲi]
• Rhymes: -oˑtsi
• Hyphenation: Root‧si

Proper noun

Rootsi (genitive Rootsi, partitive Rootsit)

1. Sweden (a country in Scandinavia in Europe)
2. the name of some villages in Estonia

Declension

Declension of Rootsi (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		Rootsi	—
accusative	nom.
	gen.	Rootsi
genitive			—
partitive		Rootsit	—
illative		Rootsisse	—
inessive		Rootsis	—
elative		Rootsist	—
allative		Rootsile	—
adessive		Rootsil	—
ablative		Rootsilt	—
translative		Rootsiks	—
terminative		Rootsini	—
essive		Rootsina	—
abessive		Rootsita	—
comitative		Rootsiga	—

Derived terms

• rootsi
• Rootsi aeg
• rootsilik
• rootsistuma
• rootslane
• rootslanna

 

References

• Rootsi in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “Rootsi”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Ingrian

Rootsen kartta.

Etymology

From rootsi.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈroːt͡si/, [ˈroːt͡s̠ʲ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈroːt͡si/, [ˈro̝ːt͡si]
• Rhymes: -oːt͡sʲ, -oːt͡si
• Hyphenation: Root‧si

Proper noun

Rootsi

1. Sweden (a country in Europe)

Declension

Declension of Rootsi (type 5/lehti, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	Rootsi	Rootset
genitive	Rootsen	Rootsiin, Rootsiloin
partitive	Rootsia	Rootsija, Rootsiloja
illative	Rootsee	Rootsii, Rootsiloihe
inessive	Rootsees	Rootsiis, Rootsilois
elative	Rootsest	Rootsist, Rootsiloist
allative	Rootselle	Rootsille, Rootsiloille
adessive	Rootseel	Rootsiil, Rootsiloil
ablative	Rootselt	Rootsilt, Rootsiloilt
translative	Rootseks	Rootsiks, Rootsiloiks
essive	Rootsenna, Rootseen	Rootsinna, Rootsiloinna, Rootsiin, Rootsiloin
exessive1)	Rootsent	Rootsint, Rootsiloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

References

• L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli (1936) P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, transl., Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 46