ruti-

See also: ruti, Ruti, and řúti

Finnish

Etymology

Perhaps from the onomatopoeic rutista (compare dialectal ruti (“broken, in(to) pieces”)); other theories include that the prefix is re-extracted from rutikuiva specifically, which in turn would be from earlier ruutikuiva (ruuti + kuiva), but this does not explain the other compounds (like rutihullu and rutiköyhä, which do not appear to be more recent) all that well.^[1]

Prefix

ruti-

Intensifying prefix; very.

Derived terms

Finnish terms prefixed with ruti-

References

^ Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN

[1] Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN

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