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root word
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stem **
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"So you've been trying to translate it from root words for three months, without a bit of luck."

He had to reason it out, starting with the root words and locating their place in the family of human languages.

That is the root word if you look it up in Arabic.

"Sometimes I have to look at the root word and figure out the definition by process of elimination."

Not every distinct word is assigned a number, but only the root words.

He also introduced changes to the language's many root words.

Even though the root word is equal, it's up to a judge to decide how much the little lady should get.

The point of this stage is to reveal the root words and their roles in the text.

The other diseases he didn't know except from the root words, which were very very old.

The root word is pretend, to try to appear as something other than what you are.