rot
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- root; the part of a plant under the surface.
- the part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place
- source; an underlying cause
- (mathematics) of a number , a positive number which, when raised to a specified power, yields n; the square root is understood if no power is specified
- (mathematics) a zero (of a function).
- (mathematics) a designated node in a tree.
- (mathematics) curl; a measure on how fast a vector field rotates: it can be described as the cross product of del and a given vectorial field
- (computing) root directory
- (philology) a word from which another word is derived.
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish rot, rōt inherited from Old Norse rót (root, tossing, pitching) inherited from Proto-Germanic *wrōts (root) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (root).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wréh₂ds
Gloss
root
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
根
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- rutabaga English
- ramus Latin
- rādīcis, rādīx Latin
- rāmus Latin
- ῥάδιξ Ancient Greek
- ῥίζα Ancient Greek
- *wrd- Proto-Indo-European
- *wréh₂ds Proto-Indo-European
- rot Norwegian Bokmål
- *wrōts Proto-Germanic
- *wurt- Proto-Germanic
- *wurtiz, *wrōts Proto-Germanic
- bagge Swedish
- kubik Swedish
- kubikrot Swedish
- kvadrat Swedish
- kvadratrot Swedish
- kål Swedish
- kålrot Swedish
- mos Swedish
- peppar Swedish
- pepparrot Swedish
- rotabagge Swedish
- rotlös Swedish
- rotlöshet Swedish
- rotmos Swedish
- s Swedish
- Åland Swedish
- ålandsrot Swedish
- rot Norwegian Nynorsk
- rōt Old English
- wyrt Old English
- rót Old Norse
- urt Old Norse
- rod Danish
- *rodъ Proto-Slavic
- rót Icelandic
- ریشه Persian
- wurz Old High German
- wurzala Old High German
- *րգատ Old Armenian
- rót Faroese
- *wurti gmw-pro
- *wradios Proto-Celtic
- *wradyos Proto-Celtic
- *wridmā Proto-Celtic
- rot Old Swedish
- rot, rōt Old Swedish
- *wrād-ī- Proto-Italic
- *wrādīks Proto-Italic
- reh Northern Kurdish
- *radas Proto-Balto-Slavic
- witsako Tocharian B