Moor vs Root

Moor

name
  • An English surname transferred from the given name. 

  • A surname from Irish. 

noun
  • A member of an Islamic people of Arab or Berber origin ruling Spain and parts of North Africa from the 8th to the 15th centuries. 

  • A member of an ancient Berber people from Mauretania. 

  • A person of an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya language, mainly inhabiting Western Sahara, Mauritania, and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco, Mali, Senegal etc.). 

Root

name
  • An English surname from Middle English from a byname from Middle English rote (“glad”). 

  • A town in Lucerne canton, Switzerland. 

  • A river in Wisconsin, United States. 

  • A river in Minnesota, United States; named as a translation of its native Dakota name. 

  • A town in New York, United States; named for lawyer and politician Erastus Root. 

  • A habitational surname from Dutch for someone living near a retting place (Dutch root, from roten (“to ret”)). 

  • An English surname originating as an occupation for a rote (medieval guitar)-player. 

How often have the words Moor and Root occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )