Grundwort — meaning in English
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English meaning
- root noun The underground part of a plant that anchors it and draws in water and nutrients.
Senses
Grundwort is used for these senses in English:
- root (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.
root — full definition
- noun The underground part of a plant that anchors it and draws in water and nutrients.
- noun The origin, source, or underlying cause of something.
- noun In mathematics, a value which, raised to a given power, produces a specified number (most commonly the square root).
- verb To become firmly fixed or established.
- verb To cheer for or support someone, hoping for their success. (usually "root for")