Etymology

Always derived from ON, cp. OIcel hrósa ‘praise', which is probably the reflex of an earlier *hrōþs- (cp. derived on the same root, OIcel hróðr ‘praise; fame, reputation; an encomium’, OS hrōð, OHG hrōd-, hruad- ‘glory’, OE hrōðor ‘solace, joy, pleasure, benefit’, hrēð ‘victory, glory’, Go hroþeigs ‘triumphant’). See also rous (n.).

PGmc Ancestor

*hrōþs-

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

hrósa ‘praise'
(ONP hrósa)

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

Far rósa, Icel hrósa, Norw rosa, Dan rose, OSw rosa

OE Cognate

cp. hrōðor (n.) ‘solace, joy, pleasure, benefit’

Phonological and morphological markers

Summary category

C1c

Attestation

MED has numerous citations from N and E texts from Orrm onwards; N/EM and Sc in modern dial. (OED3, EDD)

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

Cl 1371; WA 4313, 5122

Bibliography

MED rọ̄sen (v.) , OED3 roose (v.) , EDD roose (v. and sb.), Bj. 218, de Vries hrósa, Mag. hrósa