Rootsi

See also: Roodsi and Ruotsi

Estonian

Etymology

From Old Swedish *roþs- (“related to rowing”); related to Old Norse Roþrslandi (“the land of rowing”), older name of Roslagen, where the Finns and Swedes first met, from roðr (“steering oar”), from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą (“rudder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Cognate to Finnish Ruotsi, Livvi Ruočči (“Finland”), Ludian ruoťš́ (“Finland, Sweden, a Finn, a Lutheran”).

Proper noun

Rootsi

Sweden
Rootsi (the name of some villages in Estonia)

Declension

Inflection of Rootsi (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	Rootsi	Rootsid
accusative	Rootsi	Rootsid
genitive	Rootsi	Rootside
partitive	Rootsit	Rootsisid
illative	Rootsi Rootsisse	Rootsidesse
inessive	Rootsis	Rootsides
elative	Rootsist	Rootsidest
allative	Rootsile	Rootsidele
adessive	Rootsil	Rootsidel
ablative	Rootsilt	Rootsidelt
translative	Rootsiks	Rootsideks
terminative	Rootsini	Rootsideni
essive	Rootsina	Rootsidena
abessive	Rootsita	Rootsideta
comitative	Rootsiga	Rootsidega

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