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(linguistics) Denotes a word or morpheme boundary.
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(linguistics) A word, especially a noun in Indo-European linguistics, whose stem ends in /a/.
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(grammar) The prefix a- (or an- when prefixing a root which begins with a vowel) found in some English words of Greek derivation. It expresses negation or absence. The prefix has cognates in other Indo-European languages, including in- in Latin and un- in English.
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(linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
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Alternative form of basic form (“the uninflected form of a word used as a dictionary entry”) [The uninflected form of a word used as a dictionary entry.]
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(linguistic morphology) A morpheme that can only occur when bound to a root morpheme. For example: cran- (as in cranberry), -ed, -ing, -ly.
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(rhetoric) A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
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(English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
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(Arabic grammar, of a verb) Having a root whose final consonant is weak (ي, و, or ء).
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(Indo-European linguistics) The lengthened grade that appears in words of a certain root group, or stem group, in the course of vocalic variations.
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(onomastics) The second element of a name composed of two traditional name roots.
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Of, pertaining to, or serving as a diacritic
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(linguistic morphology) A purely formal morpheme with no semantic content.
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(linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
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(linguistics) An n-gram consisting of five items from a sequence.
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(linguistics) A morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem, forming an extended root or stem.
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(linguistic morphology) A morpheme that can carry meaning on its own, and does not require a prefix, suffix, or infix to give it meaning.
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(syntax) The movement of a word of phrase to nearer the beginning of a sentence or clause than it would usually appear, often for emphasis. May also occur as part of the standard syntax of particular constructions (e.g. wh-fronting).
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The base form of a verb (as opposed to its extended verb forms), particularly in the Semitic languages
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(Lojban grammar) A brivla that is a basic Lojban root, rather than being derived through compounding or borrowing.
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(linguistics) Having the head (primary morpheme) at the end of a phrase.
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(linguistics) Having the head (primary morpheme) at the beginning of a phrase.
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(linguistics) A word, especially a noun in Indo-European linguistics, whose stem ends in /i/.
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(computing) An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token).
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(linguistics) A set of related lexemes
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(linguistics) An element of morphological analysis, usually carrying no meaning, used to connect words or stems to form compounds.
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(linguistics) The most recent time encompassed by a given period of time.
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(linguistics) A linguistic rule stating that rendaku does not occur if the second element of the compound contains a voiced obstruent in any position, e.g. yama + kaji produces yamakaji (mountain fire), not *yamagaji.
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(Bantu linguistics) The stem of a verb, plus any object markers preceding the stem and affixes following the stem, taken as a morphological unit.
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(linguistics) A free or bound morpheme indicating a grammatical function.
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(linguistics) A rule according to which the increase of a linguistic construct results in a decrease of its constituents, and vice versa: for example, the more clauses appear in a sentence, the shorter those clauses are.
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(linguistics, uncommon) morpheme
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(linguistics) The evolution towards monosyllabicity; monosyllabification.
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(dialectal) A root; stock.
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A logical fragment of a word, such as prefix or suffix, used in teaching spelling.
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(linguistics) A lexeme-like unit made up of a sequence of two or more words that has properties that are not predictable from the properties of the individual words or their normal mode of combination.
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(linguistics) A specific sequence of letters treated as a (phonemic) unit.
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(linguistics) A morpheme that has no phonetic form. It is represented as the empty set symbol ∅.
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(linguistic morphology) Synonym of zero prefix
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(Indo-European linguistics) In Proto-Indo-European linguistics, an ablaut form of a Proto-Indo-European root, characterised by the presence of the */o/ vowel phoneme in place of */e/.
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(linguistics) A word, especially a noun in Indo-European linguistics, whose stem ends in /o/.
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(linguistics) One of the basic principles describing the position of words and phrases in a sentence, stating that a shorter phrase will precede a longer phrase where possible.
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(linguistics) A partial word; an utterance consisting of only part of a word.
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(linguistics) Added to the root of a word
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(linguistics) A wordinitial segment that does not have all characteristics of a prefix.
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Chiefly in Semitic languages: a formative letter, syllable, etc., at the beginning of a word.
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(linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
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(onomastics) The first element of a name composed of two traditional name roots.
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(linguistics) A word-like utterance produced by early people who had yet to develop full language capability; a word from a proto-language.
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(linguistics) A word element that looks like a prefix but is not, such as sub- in sublime.
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(lexicography, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
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(linguistics) A primitive word, from which other words may be derived.
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(linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
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(linguistics) In Proto-Indo-European linguistics, a noun formed by adding inflectional endings directly to the root, with no intermediate suffixes.
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A prefix in an English word derived from Greek or Latin.
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Alternative spelling of root noun [(linguistics) In Proto-Indo-European linguistics, a noun formed by adding inflectional endings directly to the root, with no intermediate suffixes.]
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(Hebrew linguistics) Having the shape CVCVC and penultimate stress.
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A set of cmavo (“structure words/particles”) which are grammatically interchangeable; a "part of speech" used in defining Lojban's formal grammar.
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Synonym of determinative (“sign used to mark semantic categories in logographic script”)
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(linguistics) The initial or final constituent of compounds that cannot occur outside the domain of compounds, i.e., they are not freely combinable with words or phrases into syntactic constituents, but can undergo coordination reduction in both directions.
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(linguistics) A monomorphemic word, one without affixes.
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(linguistics) A stage in producing an utterance that comes between syntax and the interface with the phonological form, according to Chomsky's minimalist program.
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(linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
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(linguistics) Part of a stem.
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(grammar) The uniting of ideas into a sentence.
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(linguistics) The shortest grammatically allowable sentence into which a piece of writing can be split.
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(linguistic morphology, Indo-European studies) A vowel appended to the end of a root (with which it constitutes a stem), before the ending.
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(linguistics) A word, especially a noun in Indo-European linguistics, whose stem ends in /u/.
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(linguistics) The umlaut process (as above) that occurred historically in Germanic languages whereby back vowels became front vowels when followed by syllable containing a front vocoid (e.g. Germanic lūsiz > Old English lȳs(i) > Modern English lice).
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Alternative form of ur-word [An original or primal word; a proto-word.]
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(linguistics) A phrase headed by little v.
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Pronunciation spelling of word. [The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes]
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The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
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Obsolete spelling of word [The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes]
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(linguistics) Occurring at the beginning of a word.
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Alternative spelling of zero-grade [(Indo-European linguistics) In Proto-Indo-European linguistics, an ablaut form of a root characterized by the absence of the basic ablauting vowel phonemes */e/ and */o/.]
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(linguistics) A null morpheme.
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(linguistic morphology) A prefix which is a null morpheme, used in models of linguistic analysis to represent the lack of a prefix where one might otherwise be expected (for example, as one of several inflections that a stem can take, or the reduction of a historically vocalised prefix to the point that it is inaudible).
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(Indo-European linguistics) In Proto-Indo-European linguistics, an ablaut form of a root characterized by the absence of the basic ablauting vowel phonemes */e/ and */o/.
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