rooi

From Dutch rood, whose inflected form is rooie in various Dutch vernaculars. In Afrikaans the same alternation would be expected (cf. dood or goed), but the inflected stem was generalized (probably by analogy with other common colour adjectives, which are regularly unchanged in the attributive form).

• IPA^(key): /roːi̯ ~ ruə̯j/

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rooi (attributive rooi or (seldom) rooie, comparative rooier, superlative rooiste)

1. red

• rooibos

• IPA^(key): /roːi̯/

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• Rhymes: -oːi̯

From rood through vocalisation of intervocalic -d- (in inflected forms).

rooi (comparative rooier, superlative rooist)

1. (informal, chiefly attributive) Alternative form of rood (“red”)

rooi

1. inflection of rooien:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

 

• roi (alternative spelling)

From Spanish arroyo.

rooi

1. creek; A dry creek, that fills with water after rainfall.
2. gulch