In this post, we have reverted to an examination of another productive Latin root, verto. This root means "turn" and it is the basis of a large number of derived forms which have also entered English.
Although most English words from this root entered the language via Latin, the root can be traced back even further to a Proto-Indo-European root *wert- meaning "turn, bend". In Germanic languages, the meaning of this root evolved to "turns of fate", and what things...