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Roos (surname)
Roos is a surname with multiple origins. In Dutch language, Dutch, Low German, Swiss German and Estonian language, Estonian “Roos” means “Rose” and the surname is often of toponymic surname, toponymic origin (e.g. someone lived in a house named “the rose”). In 2007, 8600 people were named Roos and another 2880 “de Roos” in the Netherlands. In the UK, Roos may be of patronymic origin (“Andrews”) or indicating red hair (Old English “Rouse”). The name is also relatively common in Sweden (5,902 people in 2010), Finland (1219 in 2012) and Estonia (934 people in 2019). People with the name "Roos" or "de Roos" include: Academics * Anna Maria Roos (1862–1938), Swedish educator, author, theosophist and songwriter * (1877–1953), Dutch philologist * (1937–2010), Swedish theoretical chemist * Charles F. Roos (1901–1958), American economist * Folkert de Roos (1920–2000), Dutch economist * Göran Roos, Swedish business theorist * Jan-Erik Roos, Swedish ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
