rót

From Old Norse rót (“root”), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”); compare with English wort and the Latin rādīx (“root”). Cognate with the Icelandic rót; Old English rōt (whence the Middle English word root (“the underground part of a plant”) came, whence the English root came).

• IPA^(key): [ɹɔuːt]

rót f (genitive singular rótar, plural røtur)

1. root

Declension of rót
f12	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rót	rótin	røtur	røturnar
accusative	rót	rótina	røtur	røturnar
dative	rót	rótini	rótum	rótunum
genitive	rótar	rótarinnar	róta	rótanna

• urt

ró +‎ -t

• IPA^(key): [ˈroːt]

rót

1. accusative singular of ró

• IPA^(key): /rouːt/
• Rhymes: -ouːt

From Old Norse rót (“root”), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”); compare with English wort and the Latin rādīx (“root”). Cognate with the Faroese rót; Old English rōt (whence the Middle English word root (“the underground part of a plant”) came, whence the English root came).

rót f (genitive singular rótar, nominative plural rætur)

1. (botany) root
2. the roots of something, the beginning or origin

   Rætur fjallsins eru grasi vaxnar.

   The foot of the mountain is covered with grass.

3. (mathematics) root
4. (linguistics) root

   Hvernig finnur maður rót nafnorða?

   How does one find the root of nouns?

• jurt

rót n (genitive singular róts, no plural)

1. commotion
2. powerful movement

According to Alexander MacBain, a Germanic borrowing from Middle English roade (see modern English road),^[1] but 9th century Sanas Cormaic suggests the word was originally disyllabic in Old Irish—rout, IPA^(key): /ro.ud/—(as it is in Scottish Gaelic rathad), deriving it from ro-ṡét, from ro- (“very, great”) +‎ sét (“path”), from Proto-Celtic *φro-sentu-.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /r͈oːd/

rót m

1. road
2. highway

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	rót	rótL	róitL
Vocative	róit	rótL	rótuH
Accusative	rótN	rótL	rótuH
Genitive	róitL	rót	rótN
Dative	routL	rótaib	rótaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• Irish: ród
• Manx: raad
• Scottish Gaelic: rathad

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 rót”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Germanic *wrōts.

rót f

1. (literal and figurative senses) root

• Icelandic: rót
• Faroese: rót
• Norwegian: rot
• Old Swedish: rōt
  • Swedish: rot
• Danish: rod
• Gutnish: rot
• → Old English: rōt
  • Middle English: rote, root, roote, rot, rotæ
    • English: root
      • → Irish: rúta
    • Scots: ruit, rute

From Proto-Vietic *-rɔːc (“to fill up”). Compare Proto-Palaungic *rɔːc (“to drip, to leak”) (whence Riang ruac² ("to leak")).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zɔt̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐɔk̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹɔk̚˦˥]

rót • (𣹕, 律, 𢯰)

1. to pour; to fill up (a container)

   rót nước đầy li ― to fill up a cup with water