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2006-11-27 09:57:11 · 6 answers · asked by aliceInWnderland 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

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There is no root. I can help you find the etymology though. There are only roots of verbs and adjectives but not nouns.

2006-11-27 09:58:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Word History: Water is wet, even etymologically. The Indo-European root of water is *wed-, "wet." This root could appear in several guises—with the vowel e, as here, or as *wod-, or with no vowel between the w and d, yielding *ud-. All three forms of the root appear in English either in native or in borrowed words. From a form with a long e, *wēd-, which by Grimm's Law became *wēt- in Germanic, we have Old English wÇ£t, "wet," which became modern English wet. The form *wod-, in a suffixed form *wod-ōr, became *watar in Germanic and eventually water in modern English. From the form *ud- the Greeks got their word for water, hud-ōr, the source of our prefix hydro- and related words like hydrant. The suffixes *-rā and *-ros added to the form *ud- yielded the Greek word hudrā, "water snake" (borrowed into English as hydra), and the Germanic word *otraz, the source of our word otter, the water animal.
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2006-11-27 19:43:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

A root of a word is that word stripped of prefixes and suffixes. Prefixes and suffixes are used to modify the word, to change its meaning. For example, the verb "know" can be turned into the noun (knowledge), which can be modified to become an adjective (knowledgeable) or an adverb (knowledgeably). The root is know.

Water has no prefixes and suffixes. It is the root. It can be modified to be an adjective (watery).

2006-11-27 18:11:34 · answer #3 · answered by Peter 2 · 0 0

Root? Ancestors are German "wasser" and Gothic "wato"

2006-11-27 18:09:53 · answer #4 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 0 0

aqua

2006-11-27 18:00:45 · answer #5 · answered by montana1445 2 · 0 0

hydro

2006-11-27 18:14:06 · answer #6 · answered by soccerballa17 2 · 0 0

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