What Root Means Go

The Latin root word ced means “go.” This root is the word origin of many English vocabulary words, including accede, secede, and recede. An easy way to remember this root word is by the word precede, for when one thing precedes another, it “goes” before it.

Is running a root word?

English has many words derived from the roots curr- and curs-, forms of the Latin verb run, and from its more ancient ancestors. The basic idea behind current is running. There are currents in water, and in the air, and we also say that a river runs from the mountains to the sea.

Where did the word RUN come from?

run (n.) mid-15c. (earlier ren, late 14c.), “a spell of running, the act of running,” from run (v.). The Old English noun ryne/yrn (early Middle English rine) meant “a flowing, a course, a watercourse;” the modern sense of “small stream” is recorded from 1580s, mostly in Northern English dialect and American English.