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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Base words

what would be the base word for: Chord, assent, phase is it just the word itself?
  

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Hi For 'chord' and 'phase' I don't think you can specifically speak of a base word; instead they're more like derivations I think. Chord --> accord --> (Latin) Ad+cord --> 'cord' (here perhaps a suffix + base word) Phase --> (Greek) Phasis (more like the original word but in another form) However, in the case of 'assent': Assent = probably derived from as+sent; to sent, which could be considered as the base. Perhaps this is more the area of etymology, but it's interesting nonetheless.

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  • Hi For 'chord' and 'phase' I don't think you can specifically speak of a base word; instead they're more like derivations I think.
  • Chord --> accord --> (Latin) Ad+cord --> 'cord' (here perhaps a suffix + base word) Phase --> (Greek) Phasis (more like the original word but in another form) However, in the case of 'assent': Assent = probably derived from as+sent; to sent, which could be considered as the base.
  • Perhaps this is more the area of etymology, but it's interesting nonetheless.
  • Other words are sometimes more distinct and you can see more clearly that they consist of prefixes, infixes, and/or suffixes.
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Hi

For 'chord' and 'phase' I don't think you can specifically speak of a base word; instead they're more like derivations I think.

Chord--> accord --> (Latin) Ad+cord --> 'cord'
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