Talk:Root (linguistics)

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Root X Morpheme

I am not a Linguist; I have been acquiring an overview of Linguistics concepts mostly through Wikipedia.

In the article about Root (linguistics), I found the following information:

Roots can be either free morphemes or bound morphemes. Root morphemes are essential for affixation and compounds.

The root of a word is a unit of meaning (morpheme) (...)

In Linguistics, is "root" a synonym of "morpheme"? The article seems to say so. If that is the case, the articles Root (linguistics) and Morpheme should be merged. Otherwise, the difference between them should be better expressed in both articles. --Antonielly 15:04, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am not a Linguist, and this page[1] seems systematic to me. It classifies Root (linguistics), stem (linguistics), affix, and clitic as a type of morpheme. Maybe there are other classification systems, but at least this should give others some ideas about the relationships of such terms. -- waholayo 04:19, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some of Arabic example are not correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.145.158.149 (talk) 14:02, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Vocabulary

What is a root word 41.191.105.234 (talk) 21:04, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Last Sentence of Intro Section doesn't sound right...

"The root is conventionally indicated using the mathematical symbol √; for instance, the Sanskrit root '√bhū-' means the root 'bhū-'".

Wouldn't it be better to say "for instance, in Sanskrit, '√bhū-' means the root 'bhū-'"? I think if you keep the word "root" right before the example that has the symbol for root, it's superfluous. It's like saying "root 'root bhū-'". I already changed it to what I'm suggesting before, but not even 4 minutes later someone reverted it. Languagelover3000 (talk) 17:55, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm even more confused why this was reverted because on this Wikipedia page taking about Sanskrit roots, an example using the same word and form is used, but in the form that I put it. It's the second sentence of the section I linked. Languagelover3000 (talk) 18:23, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've rewritten the passage in question. Remsense ‥ 论 18:26, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, that's fine. The last sentence of that section reads much better now actually. But I'm just wondering—if you ended up writing the end of the sentence in more-or-less the same way I did, ...why did you revert my edit? Because that's the only part I changed on the entire article... Languagelover3000 (talk) 18:31, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]