ruočči

Karelian

Regional variants of ruočči

North Karelian (Viena)	ruočči
South Karelian (Tver)	ruočči

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *roocci. Cognates include Finnish ruotsi and Estonian roots.

The original sense was restricted to Germanic people, but over time the focus shifted from ethnicity to religion, at which point the word started being used to also describe the Lutheran Finns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈruo̯t͡ʃːi/
• Hyphenation: ruoč‧či

Noun

ruočči (genitive ruočin, partitive ruoččie)

1. Swedish language
2. (rare) Synonym of ruoččilaini/ruoččilaine (“Swede”)
3. (South Karelian) Short for ruoččiheinä (“thistle”).
4. (dated, often derogatory) Synonym of šuomi (“Finnish”)
5. (ethnic slur, often derogatory) Synonym of šuomelaini/šuomelaine (“Finn”)

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of ruočči (type 3/ovi, čč-č gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	ruočči	ruočet
genitive	ruočen	ruoččien
partitive	ruoččie	ruoččija
illative	ruoččih	ruoččiloih
inessive	ruočešša	ruoččiloissa
elative	ruočešta	ruoččiloista
adessive	ruočella	ruoččiloilla
ablative	ruočelta	ruoččiloilta
translative	ruočekši	ruoččiloiksi
essive	ruoččina	ruoččiloina
comitative	—	ruoččiloineh
abessive	ruočetta	ruoččiloitta

Tver Karelian declension of ruočči (type 3/ovi, čč-č gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	ruočči	ruočet
genitive	ruočen	ruoččiloin
partitive	ruoččie	ruoččiloida
illative	ruoččih	ruoččiloih
inessive	ruočešša	ruoččiloissa
elative	ruočešta	ruoččiloista
adessive	ruočella	ruoččiloilla
ablative	ruočelda	ruoččiloilda
translative	ruočekši	ruoččiloiksi
essive	ruoččina	ruoččiloina
comitative	ruočenke	ruoččiloinke
abessive	ruočetta	ruoččiloitta

Possessive forms of ruočči
1st person	ruoččeni
2nd person	ruoččeš
3rd person	ruoččeh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Derived terms

• Ruočči
• ruoččiheinä

 

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “ruočči”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “ruottši”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎^[1], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *roocci, from Old East Norse (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more).

Noun

ruočči

1. the Swedish language
2. (ethnic slur, often derogatory) Synonym of suomelaine (“Finn”)
3. (outdated, often derogatory) Synonym of suomi (“Finnish”)

Synonyms

• (Swedish): svinskoi