Ruotsi
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *roocci[1] (around 8th-9th century AD; very late, possibly even post-Proto-Finnic), borrowed from Old East Norse *rōþs- as part of *Rōþsland[2][3] (compare Old Swedish Roþs, the genitive of Old Swedish Roþer, the Old Swedish name for Roslagen).[4] The word is akin to Old Norse róðr (“rowing”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”).
Originally probably as an ethnonym ruotsi (“Swede”), now archaic. Finnic cognates include Estonian Rootsi, 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 (compare the etymology section of ryssä (“(derogatory) Russian”), from Swedish ryss, from the aforementioned Slavic word).[3][4] Samic words, such as Northern Sami Ruoŧŧa, are borrowings from Finnic.[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈruo̯tsi/, [ˈruo̞̯ts̠i]
Audio "Ruotsi, ruotsalainen, ruotsalaiset, ruotsin kieli": (file) - Rhymes: -uotsi
- Syllabification(key): Ruot‧si
- Hyphenation(key): Ruot‧si
Proper noun
[edit]Ruotsi
- Sweden (a country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe)
- Synonym: Ruotsinmaa
- a Finnish surname
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of Ruotsi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Ruotsi | Ruotsit | |
| genitive | Ruotsin | Ruotsien | |
| partitive | Ruotsia | Ruotseja | |
| illative | Ruotsiin | Ruotseihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Ruotsi | Ruotsit | |
| accusative | nom. | Ruotsi | Ruotsit |
| gen. | Ruotsin | ||
| genitive | Ruotsin | Ruotsien | |
| partitive | Ruotsia | Ruotseja | |
| inessive | Ruotsissa | Ruotseissa | |
| elative | Ruotsista | Ruotseista | |
| illative | Ruotsiin | Ruotseihin | |
| adessive | Ruotsilla | Ruotseilla | |
| ablative | Ruotsilta | Ruotseilta | |
| allative | Ruotsille | Ruotseille | |
| essive | Ruotsina | Ruotseina | |
| translative | Ruotsiksi | Ruotseiksi | |
| abessive | Ruotsitta | Ruotseitta | |
| instructive | — | Ruotsein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]- ruotsalainen
- ruotsi (language)
Statistics
[edit]- The surname Ruotsi belongs to 171 individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
See also
[edit]- Alankomaat
- Albania
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Azerbaidžan
- Belgia
- Bosnia ja Hertsegovina
- Bulgaria
- Espanja
- Georgia
- Irlanti
- Islanti
- Iso-Britannia
- Italia
- Itävalta
- Kazakstan
- Kosovo
- Kreikka
- Kroatia
- Kypros
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Liettua
- Luxemburg
- Malta
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Norja
- Pohjois-Makedonia
- Portugali
- Puola
- Ranska
- Romania
- Ruotsi
- Saksa
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Suomi
- Sveitsi
- Tanska
- Tšekki
- Turkki
- Ukraina
- Unkari
- Valko-Venäjä
- Vatikaani
- Venäjä
- Viro
References
[edit]- ^ Kallio, Petri: The Diversification of Proto-Finnic Joonas Ahola & Frog (eds.), Fibula, Fabula, Fact: The Viking Age in Finland, pp. 155-168. Studia Fennica Historica 18 (2014)[1]
- ^ Mikko K. Heikkilä, Bidrag till Fennoskandiens språkliga förhistoria i tid och rum (2014). p. 189
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Erkki Itkonen, Ulla-Maija Kulonen, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words][2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004), Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
Anagrams
[edit]- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Finnish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁reh₁- (row)
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Old East Norse
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/uotsi
- Rhymes:Finnish/uotsi/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Sweden
- fi:Countries in Europe
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish risti-type nominals
