rootfast
/ˈruːtfɑːst/ /ˈruːtfast/Now rare (chiefly poetic and archaic in later use)
adjective
Firmly held by the roots. Frequently (and in earliest use) figurative : securely established; firmly fixed.
Origin
Old English; earliest use found in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. From root + fast. Originally perhaps after early Scandinavian, although compare earthfast. In later use apparently re-formed in the 19th cent.
- Bell, Alexander Graham
- bellbird
- bell-bottomed
- bell-bottoms
- bellboy
- bell buoy
- bell captain
- bell crank
- bell-crank lever
- bell curve
- belle
- Belleau Wood
- bellend
- Bellerophon
- belles-lettres
- belletrism
- belletrist
- belletristic
- Belleville
- Bellevue
- belle époque
- bellflower
- Bell Gardens
- Bell, Gertrude
- bell glass