roho - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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roho
- to fly
- Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Borrowed from Votic roho, from Proto-Finnic *rooho.
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈroho/, [ˈro̞ho̞]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈroho/, [ˈro̞ho̞]
- Rhymes: -oho
- Hyphenation: ro‧ho
roho
- grass (small wild green plant)
1936, V. I. Junus, P. L. Maksimov, Inkeroisin keelen oppikirja alkuşkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 4:
Roho noisoo. Noisoo lehti.
- The grass shoots up. The leaf ascends.
- (in compounds) green
An irregular partitive singular rohta, roht is occasionally used.
Declension of roho (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | roho | rohot |
genitive | rohon | rohhoin, roholoin |
partitive | rohhoa | rohoja, roholoja |
illative | rohhoo | rohhoi, roholoihe |
inessive | rohos | rohois, roholois |
elative | rohost | rohoist, roholoist |
allative | roholle | rohoille, roholoille |
adessive | rohol | rohoil, roholoil |
ablative | roholt | rohoilt, roholoilt |
translative | rohoks | rohoiks, roholoiks |
essive | rohonna, rohhoon | rohoinna, roholoinna, rohhoin, roholoin |
exessive1) | rohont | rohoint, roholoint |
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. |
- rooho (originally native)
- heinä (“hay”)
- Fedor Tumansky (1790) “рого”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 693
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 484
Borrowed from Arabic رُوح (rūḥ).
roho class IX (plural roho class X)
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
roho
Inflection of roho (inflection type 1/ilo) | ||
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nominative sing. | roho | |
genitive sing. | rohon | |
partitive sing. | rohod | |
partitive plur. | rohoid | |
singular | plural | |
nominative | roho | rohod |
accusative | rohon | rohod |
genitive | rohon | rohoiden |
partitive | rohod | rohoid |
essive-instructive | rohon | rohoin |
translative | rohoks | rohoikš |
inessive | rohos | rohoiš |
elative | rohospäi | rohoišpäi |
illative | rohoze | rohoiže |
adessive | rohol | rohoil |
ablative | roholpäi | rohoilpäi |
allative | rohole | rohoile |
abessive | rohota | rohoita |
comitative | rohonke | rohoidenke |
prolative | rohodme | rohoidme |
approximative I | rohonno | rohoidenno |
approximative II | rohonnoks | rohoidennoks |
egressive | rohonnopäi | rohoidennopäi |
terminative I | rohozesai | rohoižesai |
terminative II | roholesai | rohoilesai |
terminative III | rohossai | — |
additive I | rohozepäi | rohoižepäi |
additive II | roholepäi | rohoilepäi |
- Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “дряхлый”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary][1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
From Proto-Finnic *rooho.
roho
Declension of roho (type II/võrkko, no gradation) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | roho | rohod |
genitive | roho | rohojõ, rohoi |
partitive | rohhoa | rohoitõ, rohoi |
illative | rohhosõ, rohho | rohoisõ |
inessive | rohoz | rohoiz |
elative | rohossõ | rohoissõ |
allative | roholõ | rohoilõ |
adessive | rohollõ | rohoillõ |
ablative | roholtõ | rohoiltõ |
translative | rohossi | rohoissi |
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive. |
- → Ingrian: roho
- Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “roho”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn