English

roothold

From root + hold.

A compound of root + hold

Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds ‘root’

Proto-Germanic *wrōts ‘root’

Old Norse rót ‘root’

Old English rōt ‘root’

Middle English rote ‘underground part of a plant’

English root

Proto-Germanic *haldaną ‘to tend, herd’

Proto-West Germanic *haldan

Old English healdan

Middle English holden ‘to hold’

English hold

Today it means

noun Attachment by means of roots.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / roothold