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podstawa słowotwórcza — 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

podstawa słowotwórcza is used for these senses in English:

  • baseword (linguistics) A word used as a base, to whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
  • 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

  1. noun The underground part of a plant that anchors it and draws in water and nutrients.
  2. noun The origin, source, or underlying cause of something.
  3. noun In mathematics, a value which, raised to a given power, produces a specified number (most commonly the square root).
  4. verb To become firmly fixed or established.
  5. verb To cheer for or support someone, hoping for their success. (usually "root for")

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