deradical

English

Etymology

From de- (“from”) +‎ radical (“of or pretaining to a root”).

Adjective

deradical (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics, especially historical linguistics) Derived directly from a root (rather than from a form that is itself derived).
    • 2006, D. Gary Miller, “Derivation”, in Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English, Oxford University Press, page 16:
      The pattern in (20) is best desctibed as deverbal, in contrast to the deradical pattern in (21) and (22).
    • 2013, Benjamin W. Fortson IV, “Latin -(r)ier and its Indo-Iranian congeners”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, number 117, pages 75–118:
      Vedic -dhyai, as just alluded to, has been considered by many distinguished scholars to be a deradical rather than a depresential suffix, except in a few special forms.
    • 2017, Marek Andrzej Majer, The Caland system in the north: Archaism and innovation in property-concept/state morphology in Balto-Slavic, Harvard University, DPhil dissertation, page 8:
      The deradical derivation of the key elements of the C[aland ]S[ystem] reveals the origin of the system within PIE: as summarized by Rau (2009: 127–131), the Caland System is ultimately based on derivational processes starting from root nouns.
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