Stammwort — meaning in English

English meaning

• primitive adj Belonging to an early stage of development; basic or unrefined.
• radix noun (linguistics) The original word or word-part that a later word comes from.

Senses

Stammwort is used for these senses in English:

• primitive (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
• radix (linguistics) A primitive word, from which other words may be derived.

primitive — full definition

1. adj Belonging to an early stage of development; basic or unrefined.
2. noun (computing) A basic data type or simple building block from which more complex structures are made.

radix — full definition

1. noun (linguistics) The original word or word-part that a later word comes from.
2. noun (maths) How many different symbols a number system uses, such as ten in the system we count with normally.

Related German words