Wroot in my family tree
1: English: nickname for a cheerful person, from Middle English rote glad (Old English rot). 2: English: metonymic occupational name for a player on the rote, an early medieval stringed instrument (Middle English, Old French rote, of uncertain origin but apparently ultimately akin to Welsh crwth). 3: Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a retting place (Dutch root, a derivative of ro(o)ten to ret, akin to modern English rot), where flax was soaked in tubs of water until the stems rotted to release the linen fibres.
Variants (of 1 and 2): English: Roote, Rutt. (of 2 only): English: Rutter. (of 3 only): Dutch: Rooth.
Patronymics (from 1): Rootes, Roots.
4: Habitation name from Wroot Lincolnshire, especially in the form Wroot.
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