How to Become a Speech-Language Pathologist[About this section] [To Top] Get the education you need: Find schools for Speech-Language Pathologists near you! Speech-language pathologists typically need at least a masterâs degree. They must be licensed in most states; requirements vary by state.
A root, or a root word, is a word that does not have a prefix (in front of the word) or a suffix (at the end of a word). The root word is the primary lexical unit of a word, and of a word family (root is then called base word), which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Content words in nearly all languages contain, and may consist only of root morphemes.
Report Abuse. 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.