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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/rōþr
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *rōþrą.
Noun
*rōþr n[1]
- oar
- rudder
Inflection
Neuter a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *rōþr | |
Genitive | *rōþras | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *rōþr | *rōþru |
Accusative | *rōþr | *rōþru |
Genitive | *rōþras | *rōþrō |
Dative | *rōþrē | *rōþrum |
Instrumental | *rōþru | *rōþrum |
Descendants
- Old English: rōþor
- Middle English: rother, rodder, rothre, ruder, rothyr, rothir, rothar, roþer
- English: rudder
- Scots: rudder, ruther, ruder
- Middle English: rother, rodder, rothre, ruder, rothyr, rothir, rothar, roþer
- Old Frisian: rōther, rōder
- Saterland Frisian: Ruur
- West Frisian: roer
- Old Saxon: *rōthar
- Middle Low German: rôder
- German Low German: Roor
- → Danish: ror
- → Norwegian: ror
- → Old Swedish: rodher
- Swedish: roder
- Middle Low German: rôder
- Old Dutch: *ruother
- Middle Dutch: roeder
- Dutch: roer
- Afrikaans: roer
- → Russian: руль (rulʹ)
- Dutch: roer
- Middle Dutch: roeder
- Old High German: ruodar, ruoder
- Middle High German: ruoder
- German: Ruder
- Luxembourgish: Rudder
- Yiddish: רודער (ruder)
- Middle High German: ruoder
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 328: “PWGmc *rōþr”