roho

'Are'are

Verb

roho

1. to fly

References

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Ingrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Votic roho, from Proto-Finnic *rooho.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈroho/, [ˈro̞ho̞ˑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈroho/, [ˈro̞ɣ̥o̞ˑ]
• Rhymes: -oho
• Hyphenation: ro‧ho

Noun

roho

1. 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.

2. (in compounds) green

Declension

An irregular partitive singular rohta, roht is occasionally used.

Declension of roho (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination)
	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.

Synonyms

• rooho (originally native)

Derived terms

• rohoin
• rohokas
• rohokasvo
• rohonpäin
• Rohosaari
• rohosorsa
• rohottaa

See also

• heinä (“hay”)

References

• 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