rooi
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch rood, of which the inflected form is rooie in Northern Dutch (in particular Hollandic) colloquial speech. Further from Middle Dutch rôot, from Old Dutch rōd, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ-.
Pronunciation
Adjective
rooi (attributive rooi or rooie, comparative rooier, superlative rooiste)
Derived terms
See also
wit | grys | swart |
rooi; karmosyn | oranje; bruin | geel; room |
lemmetjie | groen | mentgroen |
siaan; teel | asuur, hemelsblou | blou |
violet; indigo | magenta; pers | pienk |
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From rood through vocalisation of intervocalic -d- (in inflected forms).
Adjective
rooi (comparative rooier, superlative rooist)
- (informal, chiefly attributive) Alternative form of rood (“red”)
Declension
Declension of rooi | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
uninflected | rooi | |||
inflected | rooie | |||
comparative | rooier | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | rooi | rooier | het rooist het rooiste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | rooie | rooiere | rooiste |
n. sing. | rooi | rooier | rooiste | |
plural | rooie | rooiere | rooiste | |
definite | rooie | rooiere | rooiste | |
partitive | roois | rooiers | — |
Etymology 2
Verb
rooi
- inflection of rooien:
Papiamentu

Alternative forms
- roi (alternative spelling)
Etymology
Noun
rooi
Categories:
- Afrikaans terms inherited from Dutch
- Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch
- Afrikaans terms inherited from Middle Dutch
- Afrikaans terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Afrikaans terms inherited from Old Dutch
- Afrikaans terms derived from Old Dutch
- Afrikaans terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Afrikaans terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Afrikaans terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Afrikaans terms with IPA pronunciation
- Afrikaans terms with audio pronunciation
- Afrikaans lemmas
- Afrikaans adjectives
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/oːi̯
- Rhymes:Dutch/oːi̯/1 syllable
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch adjectives
- Dutch informal terms
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- Papiamentu terms derived from Spanish
- Papiamentu lemmas
- Papiamentu nouns