Word Origin Summary

Rōt is attested in Old Dutch. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• rood

  Dutch · inherited from

• rooi

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• Roomburg

  Dutch · inherited from

• Berkel en Rodenrijs

  Dutch · inherited from

• root

  Middle Dutch · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root