A root (also known as a root word or radical) is the core of a word that is irreducible into more meaningful elements. In morphology, a root is a morphologically...

category around the root consonants, in an appropriate way, generally following specific patterns. It is a peculiarity of Semitic linguistics that a large majority...

published by Leder Games Root (Chinese constellation) Root (linguistics), the core form of a word Roots, one's cultural heritage Root, Australasian slang for...

by adding further morphemes to a root and potentially changing the root's vowel in a process called ablaut. A root consists of a central vowel that is...

morphology of the language in question. In Athabaskan linguistics, for example, a verb stem is a root that cannot appear on its own and that carries the...

The English language uses many Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes. These roots are listed alphabetically on three pages: Greek and Latin roots...

In linguistics, a calque (/kælk/) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation...

subspace of all vectors left (or right) orthogonal to every vector Root (linguistics), also called a "radical", the form of a word after any prefixes and...

advanced mathematics, such as the radical of an ideal. In linguistics, the symbol is used to denote a root word. Each positive real number has two square roots...

young athletes named after him. Amalgamation is also a term used in linguistics when a compound contains roots from several languages, without it being...

a unit of morphological analysis in linguistics that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single root word. For example, in the English language...

In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in...

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning)...

a subfield within linguistics, etymology has become a more rigorously scientific study. Most directly tied to historical linguistics, philology, and semiotics...

λήμματα). Lexeme Lexical Markup Framework Null morpheme Principal parts Root (linguistics) Uninflected word Zgusta, Ladislav (2006). Dolezal, Fredric F. M....

North Straits Salish. Occasional Papers in Linguistics (No. 4). Missoula, MT: University of Montana Linguistics Laboratory. (Revised version of the author's...

In linguistics, morphology (mor-FOL-ə-jee) is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another...

may be added before or after the root, like the -s in cats, which indicates plurality but is always bound to a root noun and is not regarded as a word...

redirect targets — implements several stemming algorithms in Python Root (linguistics) – Core of a word that is irreducible into more meaningful elements...

one root (such as "rock", "god", "type", "writ", "can", "not") and possibly some affixes ("-s", "un-", "-ly", "-ness"). Words with more than one root ("[type][writ]er"...

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of...

metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics analogous to a family tree, or to phylogenetic trees of taxa used in...

In linguistics, syntax (/ˈsɪntæks/ SIN-taks) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central...

meanings of the corresponding forms in PIE and the terms used broadly in linguistics to refer to aspects with these meanings. In traditional PIE terminology...

of Linguistics: Conjugation, Declension Lexicon of Linguistics: Base, Stem, Root Lexicon of Linguistics: Defective Paradigm Lexicon of Linguistics: Strong...

words κόρος (kóros) 'boy, youth' and κόρη (kórē) 'girl, young woman'. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological...

Morphological derivation, in linguistics, is the process of forming a new word from an existing word, often by adding a prefix or suffix, such as un-...

(2010), p. 16. "Linguistics – The comparative method". Science. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 July 2016. "Comparative linguistics". Encyclopædia...

In the tree model of historical linguistics, a proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed...

dictionary. A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object...