What is the root of the word in Russian?

The house is the root of the word. Sometimes with the rearrangement of furniture, but still - home, home. Comparing related words, we find all the morphological doors and enter the endless and most interesting chambers of the Russian language. The word is usually composed of the stem and its ending. At the heart are prefix, root and suffix, the so-called morphemes, that is, the minimal parts of the word, which can no longer be dismembered. The root morpheme has a lexical meaning, the others have a grammatical or word-form meaning.

What is the root in Russian ?

We all know that at the very beginning was the Word. And it certainly was the root, that is the main and determining part. The main lexical meaning is controlled by him. The root of the word is the main morpheme, which has a common part with all related words. It is always in every word, even without the presence of the other morphemes. But the other morphemes without a root do not live! For example: a house , add a suffix - a house. Well, what is this here without a root house ?

Root words

Similarly, other related words: a house and a house , a house and even a housekeeper - everywhere the same root of the word, related to the word house . Such words are called crocheted. There may be options. At the word house all the relatives turned out to be nouns, but there are relatives also in the distance: good, get along, okay, okay.

Difficult words

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

Homonymous roots of words

And sometimes even the magnifying glass does not help the morphological analysis : it is impossible to determine what is the root of the word. After all, there are also such ridiculously intricate cases when words of absolutely different meaning have the same root. These are the roots of words, called homonyms, and they must be learned to distinguish. Homonymous - means, coinciding on sounding, but absolutely different in value. Wearing is the root of the nose , and the nose on the face is also with the nose rooted. How to be? Even knowing what the root of the word is and unerringly determining it, it is necessary to correlate these words by lexical meaning and to establish that they are not crocheted.

Roots connected and free

This very nose, which is on the face, can easily do without endings, even touching - ah, what a nose! , The more without Amikoshon - well, and the nose of yours! , That is, the nose - the root is independent, and therefore called free. There are many of those. But there are completely non-independent roots, they survive only in conjunction with other morphemes - prefixes and suffixes: to understand for example. Well, how to understand what is the root of the word " understand "? Such roots are called bound . Even more interesting are the roots with one letter : shoes, shoes, razut.

Rearrangement of furniture

Very often there are changes at the root - one sound is replaced by another, when different forms of the same word or in related words are used. There are certain rules for spelling. This is called alternation, as for both vowels and consonants. Moss - moss, lies - lies , run-escape , for example. There are alternating historical ( historical ) and phonetic alternations.

Modern transformations

In modern Russian, many words have merged the root with other morphemes, have overturned the language. For example: Western, factory, celebration, grieve and others.