rootage
     n 1: fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in
          the firm soil of faith"
     2: a developed system of roots syn: root system
     3: the place where something begins, where it springs into
        being; "the italian beginning of the renaissance";
        "jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "pittsburgh is
        the source of the ohio river"; "communism's russian root"
        syn: beginning, origin, root, source
see also:
root system beginning origin root source