rootage (
http://definr.com/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]