rooting

From Middle English rotynge (“rooting”); equivalent to root +‎ -ing.

rooting (countable and uncountable, plural rootings)

1. A system of roots; a secure attachment (in something); a firm grounding.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark IV:

     as sone as the sun was uppe it caught heet: and because it had nott rotynge it wyddred awaye.

2. The process of forming roots.
3. A method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots.

rooting

1. present participle of root

• Rogotin