For those of us who think some uses are better than others, easily accessible root-word meanings are sometimes a factor. ❋ Unknown (2007)
You are surely free not to use “verbal” this way, and to praise “easily accessible root-word meanings.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
"Samir is a root-word man, which ... is akin to calling him a purist," says Katy Vine in Texas Monthly. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Delaunay, that beneath the incomprehensible Word was a root-word which echoed in every syllable, the foundation upon which the Sacred Name was built. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)
-- The names of workers in the various trades and professions are formed by adding the suffix * - ist* to the root-word. ❋ William W. Mann (N/A)
Great economy of vocabulary is thus effected, one root-word in Esperanto sufficing, when modified by suitable affixes, to translate many English words. ❋ William W. Mann (N/A)
In the _compound words_ of existing Languages each root-word of the combination has a distinct meaning, and the joint meaning of the parts so united is the description or definition of the new idea; thus in ❋ Various (N/A)
As _tone_ and _strain_ or _stretch_ are related in idea, as seen in the case of musical notes or tones, is it not as probable that the original root-word of which _tan_, _ton_, _thun_, _tin_, _din_, ❋ Various (N/A)
It means what its root-word _vivere_ means, to live. ❋ Thomas Tapper (N/A)
War throws some leeks, [Greek: prasa], the root-word of the name Prasiae, into his mortar. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)
War throws some leeks, the root-word of the name Praisae, into his mortar. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)
One form of this word, with the aleph prefix, Ekoshi (the Coptic eshoosh, eshôsh, ethosh) would thus be the real root-word. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Mason comes to us from the Latin ` ` mass, '' which means to mould and form, i.e., to build; and the word ` ` mass, '' through various transformations, was also derived from the root-word ` ` mag. '' ❋ Unknown (1900)
This word sheol is derived from a root-word meaning "to ask," ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)
Others trace the name of a Hebrew root-word signifying "to pass over," and hence regard it as meaning "the man who passed over," viz., the Euphrates; or to the Hebrew word meaning "the region" or "country beyond," viz., the land of Chaldea. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)
Words beginning with ge - will be found under their root-word. ❋ Robert Sharp (1879)
_Puczikal_ appears to be a root-word, though of three syllables. ❋ Various (1868)
The two expressions for 'believing' and 'being established' are two varying forms of the same root-word; and although we can only imitate the original clumsily in our language, we might translate in some such way as this: 'Hold fast by the Lord your God, and you will be held fast,' or 'stay yourselves on Him and you will be stable.' ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
In regard to derivation, _uotan_ is from the pure Maya root-word _tan_, which means primarily "the breast," or that which is in front or in the middle of the body; with the possessive prefix it becomes _utan_. ❋ Daniel Garrison Brinton (1868)
Examples of "[root word alliteration]" are, "love—that unexplainably still unexplained phenomenon which in this era of perfection still makes the world go round—appears to take on a life of its own to grow and is irrefutably known to quickly [deactivate] reason in order to satisfy one or both lover's needs." And "It's better to be safe than sorry," said a tax-collector to a tax-evader who worked as a stocks and bond trader and wrestled against [alligators]." ❋ But For (2017)
Any number that can be written by dividing one [integer] by another-in [plain English], any number that can be written as a [fraction] or ratio. (An easy way to remember this is to think of rational’s root word “ratio.”) ❋ Adlane33 (2021)
