Also known as linguistic root, root word, root morpheme
indivisible part of word that does not have any affix, may have a meaning and be usable alone or not, and may comprise multiple "radical" forms
A root is the core part of a word that remains after you remove any prefixes or suffixes, and it may or may not be able to stand alone as a complete word. Roots matter because they're the fundamental building blocks that help us understand word meanings and how languages are constructed.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).