Words are made up of roots, bases, stems, derivational endings, inflectional endings, and occasionally clitics. Not everyone agrees on these forms or on the names of them. This includes Katamba. If we ...

Word family/lemma is a root word and all its inflections, for example: run, running, ran; blue, bluer, bluest, blueish, etc. So does someone who can hold a decent conversation in a second language ...

Smithereens has its roots in the word “smiodar” meaning “debris.” A common feature of the Irish language is to add “ín” to the end of a word to express a smaller version of the ...