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From Old Norse raust, ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to flow, boil, stream, move”).[1] Related to Proto-Germanic *runsiz (“river”). Cognate with Danish røst.

röst c

  1. voice (sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song)
  2. vote
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “922”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 922