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Why isn't verb "to root", meaning "to flash the ROM " covered here?
- It's probably the computing sense: to gain administrator access. Equinox ◑ 19:39, 25 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Does "I'm rooting for a happy ending to this story" mean you are cheering for it? Shadyaubergine 21:31, 10 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
- Yes. Equinox ◑ 22:19, 10 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
Since a usual sense of the verb "root" is "root out", could the native verb have influenced the related (but borrowed from Old Norse) noun? Alternatively, vice versa?
If so, is this potentially why the verb is not spelt *wroot? Tharthan (talk) 20:43, 12 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
- The OED does posit influence from the noun to explain why the verb lacks the initial <w>; IMHO, there's no compelling reason to assume influence the other way (verb → noun). Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 11:30, 13 August 2020 (UTC)Reply