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Root — English and Scottish
Meaning — Occupational name for a tailor, from Old French tailleur (Late Latin taliator, from taliare 'to cut'). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland, and its numbers have been swelled by its adoption as an Americanized form of the numerous equivalent European names, most of which are also very common among Ashkenazic Jews.

Root — 1. Irish. 2. Cornish and Welsh. 3. English & Irish
Meaning — 1. Variant of Tighe.     2. descriptive nickname for a handsome person, from Cornish tek, Welsh teg fair or beautiful. There has been considerable confusion between the Welsh and Irish names, both in Wales and Ireland.     3. Variant of Tyrrell.

Root — English and Irish
Meaning — variant of Tyrrell

Root — German
Meaning — from the Lower Sorbian personal name Te
aimir, composed of the Slavic elements te
aiti to console + mir peace.

Root — French
Meaning — Variant of French Taillier, derived from Old French taillere, an oblique case of tailleur 'tailor'.

Root — French
Meaning — nickname from Old French gros "large", with the the definite article le.

Root — German and Swiss German: variant of Thomas. Greek: genitive patronymic from Thomas.
Meaning — Genitive patronymics are particularly associated with Cyprus.

Root — English, Scottish
Meaning — Thompson is a patronymic surname meaning "son of the man known as Thom, Thomp, Thompkin, or other diminutive form of Thomas (twin)." Without the "p", the Thomson surname is often of Scottish origin.

Root — Irish: variant spelling of Tighe
Meaning — Handsome. Variant of Teague.

Root — English
Meaning — probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, apparently so named from the Old English byname Tila (compare Tilbury) + Old English denu 'valley'.

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Root — English
Meaning — from a pet form of Tom, a short form of the personal name Thomas.

Root — English
Meaning — probably a variant of Terry.

Root — English
Meaning — possibly a variant of Treece.

Root — 1.) English (mainly Lancashire and Yorkshire). 2.) German
Meaning — 1.) occupational name for a gatherer of tolls exacted for the right of passage across a bridge, ford, or other thoroughfare, from Middle English travis 'crossing', variant of travers.   2.) Americanized variant of Drewes.

Root — German
Meaning — An occupational name, derived from the Middle High German word, truhsaesee, meaning "leader". In this case, Troxel would be a variation of the German surname, "Truchsess".

Root — 1.) English (chiefly southwestern England and South Wales).   2.) Irish (Anglicized form of Gaelic).   3.) German (pissibly an Americanized form).   4.) Americanized form of Jewish (Tokarz).
Meaning — 1.) occupational name for a fuller, from an agent derivative of Middle English tuck(en) 'to full cloth' (Old English tucian 'to torment'). This was the term used for the process in the Middle Ages in southwestern England, and the surname is more common there than elsewhere.   2.)  Tuachair 'descendant of Tuachar', a personal name composed of the elements tuath 'people' + car 'dear', 'beloved'.  3.) Tucher, from an occupational name for a cloth maker or merchant, from an agent derivative of Middle High German tuoch 'cloth'.   4.) To(c)ker.