röd

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rod"

Swedish

röda körsbär [red cherries]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /røːd/, (colloquial) /røː/

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• Rhymes: -øːd, -øː

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish rø̄þer, from Old Norse rauðr, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós < *h₁rewdʰ-.

Adjective

röd (comparative rödare, superlative rödast)

1. red

   ett rött skärp ― a red belt

2. (politics) of or pertaining to leftist (communist, socialist) politics and politicians

Declension

Inflection of röd

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	röd	rödare	rödast
neuter singular	rött	rödare	rödast
plural	röda	rödare	rödast
masculine plural2	röde	rödare	rödast
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	röde	rödare	rödaste
all	röda	rödare	rödaste

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Hypernyms

• färg

Derived terms

• blodröd
• karmosinröd
• röd blodkropp
• röda hund
• rödfotad
• rödhuvad
• röding
• rödkål
• rödräv
• rödstjärtad
• rödvin
• rödögd
• rött
• scharlakansröd
• tegelröd

See also

Colors in Swedish · färger (layout · text)

vit	grå	svart
röd; karmosin, karmosinröd, blodröd	orange (common), brandgul (now uncommon); brun	gul; beige
limegrön	grön	mintgrön
turkos (common), cyan (rare); blågrön, teal	himmelsblå, azur	blå
lila, violett, gredelin (light lavender, now uncommon); indigo	magenta; purpur	rosa (common), skär (uncommon)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Swedish ruþ, riuþ, ryþ. Possible folk etymological reasons behind transition to röd (“red”).

Noun

röd c

1. (Scania, Bohuslän) alternative form of ryd

References

• “röd”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svenskt ortnamnslexikon (2016), page 261, by Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages

Anagrams

• dör