Roß

See also: ross and Ross

German

Etymology 1

See the main form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɔs/

Noun

Roß n (strong, genitive Rosses, plural Rösser or Rosse)

  1. Formerly standard spelling of Ross which was deprecated in the spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) of 1996.

Etymology 2

From Middle High German rāz, from Old High German rāza, from Proto-West Germanic *hrātu.[1] Roß was the Central German form, Wabe the Upper German; the latter was standardized around 1800.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁoːs/

Noun

Roß n (strong, genitive Roßes, plural Roße)

  1. (dialectal, otherwise obsolete) synonym of Wabe (“honeycomb”)
Declension
Declension of Roß [neuter, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Roß die Roße
genitive eines des Roßes der Roße
dative einem dem Roß, Roße1 den Roßen
accusative ein das Roß die Roße

1Now rare, see notes.

Alternative forms
  • Rooß, Rost; Roße f

Further reading

  • “Roß” in Duden online

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hreto”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 245
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