rotinn

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse rotinn.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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rotinn (comparative rotnari, superlative rotnastur)

  1. rotten, putrid

Declension

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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Past participle of an unrecorded verb related to rotna, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rutāną.

Adjective

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rotinn

  1. rotten, decayed

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: rotinn
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: roten, ròten
  • Norwegian Bokmål: råtten
  • Old Swedish: rotin, rutin
  • Middle English: roten

References

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  • rotinn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press