(Linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed.
1The root for caprice even shares a root word for your sign.
2And of course, the root word of their name, the von Neumann probe.
3For memory's sake, choosing a basic root word, then rotating numbers, is safer.
4I mean, even the root word of masculinity means it's like a mask.
5But is it not so with every root word?
6The root word is certainly ancient.
8Any one root word in Elvish can be transformed into an action, thing, or rather verb, noun, and so on.
9Note that in some cases the root word itself is a compound form such as xxx-xxxx, and is rendered as -xxx-xxx
10"I wonder what the root word of the hippie is?" he said.
11There are many forms for Arabic words, with suffixes, prefixes and root words, and words change completely when used in different tenses and forms.
12The Hebrew has only about 500 root words of 3 letters; the stagnant Chinese, 450; the Sanscrit, about the same.
13The similarity in both groups of old root words, like the numbers from one to ten, point again to a common origin still more remote.
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