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A "root word" is the basic linguistic unit of a word, the form of a word after all affixes are removed. Also known as the "stem word" -- ex. "export" has a root word "port", sleepwalking has the root word "walk". In many non-English languages, the root is formed of consonant sequences that do not represent an actual word.

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