base word
Linguistics
noun
A word that serves as a base form.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Neophilologus.
- Adamhood
- Adamic
- Adamical
- Adamically
- adamine
- pachycaul
- pachycaulous
- pachycauly
- pachycephalic
- pachycephaline
- pachycephalosaur
- pachycephalosaurid
- Pachycephalosaurus
- pachycephaly
- pachydactylous
- pachyderm
- pachydermal
- Pachydermata
- pachydermatocele
- pachydermatous
- pachydermia
- pachydermic
- pachydermoid
- pachydermous
- pachydont