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Etymology · Proto-Germanic

*wrōtaną

2 English words descend from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną, most common first.

routA group of people; a crowd, a throng, a troop; in particular (archaic), a group of people accompanying or travelling with someone.
uprootTo tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.