baseword

noun

Etymology

From base + word.

  1. inherited from *werdʰh₁om✻ — “word”
  2. inherited from *wurdą✻ — “word”
  3. inherited from *word✻
  4. inherited from word
  5. inherited from word
  6. compounded as baseword — “base + word”

Definitions

  1. A word used as a base, to whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for baseword. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA