Noun: uproot
| Singular | uproot |
| Plural | uproots |
Sample Sentences
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With the uproot of the Chinese commercial system in the 1890s such a crisis was bound to surface. [2014, Alexander Claver, Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java, page 174:]
Nouns inflected like uproot
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *wréh₂ds
3. From up- (prefix indicating a higher direction or position) + root (“to tear up by the roots; (figuratively) to remove forcibly from a place; to eradicate, exterminate”, verb). Root is derived from root (“underground part of a plant”, noun), from Middle English rote, from Old English rōt, rōte, from Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”). See: Middle English Nouns '
rote', Old Norse Nouns '
rót'.