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root nouns

root nouns is the plural of root noun.

Meaning of root noun

Noun

root noun (plural root nouns)

  1. (Indo-European-studies) In Indo-European languages and Proto-Indo-European, an archaic type of noun formed by adding inflectional endings directly to the root, with no intermediate suffixes.

Questions about root nouns

What is root nouns the plural of?
Root nouns is the plural of root noun.

Words near root nouns in the dictionary

  1. root morpheme
  2. root morphemes
  3. root nodule
  4. root nodules
  5. root noun
  6. root nouns
  7. root of all evil
  8. root of scarcity
  9. root of unity
  10. root out
  11. root parsley

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