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Spanish Ruiz is not (directly) a short form of Rodrigo. It's a surname (patronymic), it means "son of Ruy" (like Rodriguez from Rodrigo) |
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'''Roderick''', '''Rodrick''' or '''Roderic''' ([[Proto-Germanic]] ''*[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/Hrōþirīks|Hrōþirīks]]'', from ''*[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hrōþiz|hrōþiz]]'' "fame, glory" + ''*[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/rīks|ríks]]'' "king, ruler") is a [[Germanic name]], recorded from the 8th century onward.<ref>Förstemann, ''Altdeutsches Namenbuch'' (1856), [https://archive.org/stream/altdeutschesnam00frgoog#page/n392/mode/2up 740].</ref> Its [[Old High German]] forms are ''Hrodric, Chrodericus, Hroderich, Roderich, Ruodrich'' (etc.); in [[Gothic language]] ''Hrōþireiks''; in [[Old English language]] it appears as ''Hrēðrīc'' or ''Hroðrīc'', and in [[Old Norse]] as ''Hrǿríkʀ'' ([[Old East Norse]] ''Hrø̄rīkʀ'', ''Rø̄rīkʀ'', [[Old West Norse]] as ''Hrœrekr, Rœrekr'').
In the 12th-century ''[[Primary chronicle]]'', the name is reflected as {{lang|cu|Рюрикъ}}, i.e. ''[[Rurik]]''. In [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], it was rendered as ''[[Rodrigo]]'', or in its short form, ''Ruy
The modern English name does not continue the Anglo-Saxon form but was re-introduced from the continent by the [[Norman England|Normans]]. The Middle English given name had also virtually disappeared by the 19th century, even though it had survived as a surname. The given name was re-popularised by [[Sir Walter Scott]]'s poem ''[[The Vision of Don Roderick]]'' (1811), where ''Roderick'' refers to the [[Roderic|Visigothic king]]. The modern English name is sometimes abbreviated to [[Roddy]].
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