Surname
Ruotsi
“to row”
Ruotsi is a surname from Proto-Finnic, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ruotsi goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁-, meaning “to row.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Ruotsi comes from Proto-Finnic, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Finnic *roocci, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”); its root is Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ruotsi’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Ruotsi as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Swedish form RYSS.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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