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What is base?
In morphology, a base is a bigger unit to which an affix attaches or to which a morphological process applies.
"I shall try to use the term root to refer to a single morpheme which bears the 'core' meaning of a word. The term stem will be reserved for that part of a word to which inflectional affixes are added, and base for that part to which any other morpheme is added (inflectional, derivational, compound). Unfortunately, this terminology isn't standardized..." (Spencer 1991: 461)
All roots are bases, but not all bases are roots. Roots are monomorphemic. For many words in English, root = base = stem:
cat, dog, see, happy, run, gray, hope, up, over, if, under, that.
What are false cognates?
What are false friends?
False cognates are words that are similar in their modern forms despite having different etymologies. This is regardless of whether the modern meanings are similar.
False friends are words that are similar in their modern forms despite having different modern meanings. This is regardless of whether the words are etymologically connected.
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