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Green is its own root word in modern English. And it means, y'know. Green. To find out all that kind of stuff, check the excellent Etymological Dictionary (exciting, eh?): http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=green&searchmode=none

"O.E. grene, earlier groeni, related to O.E. growan "to grow," from W.Gmc. *gronja- (cf. O.Fris. grene, O.N. grænn, Dan. grøn, Du. groen, Ger. grün), from PIE base *gro- "grow," through sense of "color of living plants.""

The PIE (Proto-Indo-European) base, as it says, is "gro". PIE was the language base nearly all European and many South-East Asian languages came from. So you could kinda say that the root of "green" is "gro" (also the root, of course, of "grow"), but PIE base words aren't modern roots, they're very old ones.

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