# rót
## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse rót (“root”), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”); compare with English wort and the Latin rādīx (“root”). Cognate with the Icelandic rót; Old English rōt (whence the Middle English word root (“the underground part of a plant”) came, whence the English root came).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɹɔuːt]

### Noun

rót f (genitive singular rótar, plural røtur)
* root

#### Derived terms

* gularót f (“carrot”)
* hvannrót
* piparrót f (“horseradish”)
* reyðrót f (“beetroot”)
* rótafræ
* rótakál
* rótaslag n (“specific root vegetable, type of root vegetable; root vegetable species”)
* sopprót f (“mycorrhiza”)
* sukurrót
* tannrót
* trærót f (“tree root”)

#### Related terms

* urt

## Hungarian
### Etymology

ró +‎ -t

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈroːt]

### Noun

rót
* accusative singular of ró

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rouːt/
* Rhymes: -ouːt

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse rót (“root”), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”); compare with English wort and the Latin rādīx (“root”). Cognate with the Faroese rót; Old English rōt (whence the Middle English word root (“the underground part of a plant”) came, whence the English root came).

#### Noun

rót f (genitive singular rótar, nominative plural rætur)
* (botany) root
* the roots of something, the beginning or origin
    Rætur fjallsins eru grasi vaxnar.The foot of the mountain is covered with grass.
* (mathematics) root
* (linguistics) root
    Hvernig finnur maður rót nafnorða?How does one find the root of nouns?

##### Derived terms

* breyta frá rótum
* eiga rætur að rekja til
* festa rætur
* kalmusrót f (“sweet flag, calamus”)
* kvaðratrót f (“square root”)
* undirrót

##### Related terms

* jurt

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

rót n (genitive singular róts, no plural)
* commotion
* powerful movement

##### Declension
## Old Irish
### Etymology

According to Alexander MacBain, a Germanic borrowing from Middle English roade (see modern English road), but 9th century Sanas Cormaic suggests the word was originally disyllabic in Old Irish—rout, IPA: /ro.ud/—(as it is in Scottish Gaelic rathad), deriving it from ro-ṡét, from ro- (“very, great”) +‎ sét (“path”), from Proto-Celtic *φro-sentu-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /r͈oːd/

### Noun

rót m
* road
* highway

#### Inflection

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

#### Descendants

* Irish: ród
* Manx: raad
* Scottish Gaelic: rathad

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “rathad”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page 288
* ↑ Paul Russell, Sharon Arbuthnot, Pádraic Moran (2023 November 29 (last accessed)) Early Irish Glossaries Database‎, University of Cambridge, page 109

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 rót”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wrōts.

### Noun

rót f
* (literal and figurative senses) root

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: rót
* Faroese: rót
* Norwegian: rot
* Old Swedish: rōt
** Swedish: rot
* Danish: rod
* Gutnish: rot
* → Old English: rōt
** Middle English: rote, root, roote, rot, rotæ
*** English: root
**** → Irish: rúta
*** Scots: ruit, rute

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *-rɔːc (“to fill up”). Compare Proto-Palaungic *rɔːc (“to drip, to leak”) (whence Riang ruac² ("to leak")).

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [zɔt̚˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʐɔk̚˦˧˥]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ɹɔk̚˦˥]

### Verb

rót • (𣹕, 律, 𢯰)
* to pour; to fill up (a container)
    rót nước đầy li ― to fill up a cup with water

#### Derived terms

* rót tiền
* rót vốn