What is the root of the word in Russian

Home is the root of the word. Sometimes with a rearrangement of furniture, but still - home, homeland. Comparing related words, we find all the morphological doors and enter the endless and interesting chambers of the Russian language. A word is usually made up of a stem and its ending. The basis is the prefix, root and suffix, the so-called morphemes, that is, the minimum parts of the word that can no longer be divided. The root morpheme has a lexical meaning, while the rest have a grammatical or derivational meaning.

What is the root in Russian

We all know that at the very beginning was the Word. And this was probably the root, that is, the main and determining part. It is he who disposes of the main lexical meaning. The root of the word is the main morpheme that has a common part with all related words. It is obligatory in every word, even without the presence of other morphemes. But the other morphemes do not live without a root! For example: house , add the suffix - house. Well, and what is this ik without a root house ?!

Gang words

So are the other related words: house and home , house and even house management - everywhere the same root of the word related to the word house . Such words are called co-root. There may be options. The word house turned out to be all relatives by nouns, but there are relatives in the distance: okay, get along, okay, okay.

Difficult words

In a word there is one root and even two - house management for example, again: the first root is the house , the second is the government , from the word management . Such words are called complex. The spelling in them is strictly regulated by the rules of spelling.

The homonymous roots of words

And sometimes even a magnifying glass does not help morphological analysis : it is impossible to determine what the root of a word is. Indeed, there are ridiculously complicated cases where words that are completely different in meaning have the same root. These are the roots of words called homonymic, and they must certainly be learned to distinguish. Homonymous - meaning matching in sound, but completely different in meaning. To wear is the root of the nose , and the nose on the face is also the root of the nose . How to be? Even knowing what the root of a word is and correctly identifying it, it is necessary to correlate these words by their lexical meaning and establish that they are not of the same root.

Connected and free roots

This very nose, which on the face, can calmly do without endings, even touching ones - oh, what a nose! , all the more so without the Amikoshonsky ones - well, you have a carrying one! , that is, the nose is an independent root, and therefore is called free. There are many of those. But there are completely non-self-contained roots, they survive only in alliance with other morphemes - prefixes and suffixes: understand for example. Well, and how to understand what is the root of the word " understand "? Such roots are called connected . Even more interesting are the roots with one letter : shoes, shoes, shoes.

Rearrangement of furniture

Very often, changes occur radically - one sound is replaced by another when different forms of the same word are used or in related words. There are certain rules for spelling. This is called interleaving, for both vowels and consonants. Moss - moss, lies - lies , run , for example. Distinguish between the alternation of historical ( historical ) and phonetic .

Modern Transformations

In modern Russian, many words have merged the root with other morphemes, simplified the language. For example: western, factory, triumph, sadness and others.