English Explanatory Dictionary

wroot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. Obsolete spelling of root (“to dig or burrow with the snout”)

Word forms

wroot wroots wrooting wrooted wroten wrut wrote wroote

Etymology

From Middle English wroten, from Old English wrōtan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig, burrow, stir up”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to tear, rip, shred”).

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