uproot

Meanings

Verb

• Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
• Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.

Noun

• The act of uprooting something.

Origin

• . Root is derived from root, from Middle English rote, from Old English rōt, rōte, from Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.
• . Root is derived from Middle English wroten, from Old English wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną; further etymology uncertain.