róðr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rōþrą. Compare the verb róa (“to row”). Scandinavian form: *rōþʀ actually seems came from masculine gender: *rōþruz/*rōþraz instead of neutral one: *rōþrą, less likely from the hypothetical genitive.

Noun

róðr ?

1. rudder

Descendants

• Icelandic: róður
• Faroese: róður
• Old East Norse:
  • Old Swedish: roþer
    • Swedish: roder
    • ⇒ Swedish: rod, Roden (“the coastal region of Uppland”)
      • ⇒ Swedish: Roslagen
  • → Proto-Finnic: *roocci (from the genitive *roþs-)
    • Estonian: Rootsi; roots (archaic)
    • Finnish: Ruotsi; ruotsi (archaic)
      • Meänkieli: Ruotti
    • Ingrian: rootsi
    • Karelian: ruočči, Ruočči
    • Livonian: rūotš, Rūotšmō
    • Livvi: ruočči, Ruočči
    • Ludian: ruoč
    • Veps: Ročinma
    • Võro: ruuts', Roodsi
    • Votic: roottsi
    • → Northern Sami: ruošˈša, Ruošˈša; ruoŧŧa, Ruoŧŧa
    • →? Old East Slavic: Роусь (Rusĭ) (see there for further descendants)
    • → Proto-Permic:
      • Komi-Permyak: роч (roć)
      • Komi-Zyrian: роч (roć)
      • Udmurt: ӟуч (dźuć)

References

• róður inGeir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press