word family

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word family

noun word families

A set of etymologically related words consisting of a single word with its inflections and derivations, such as walk, walked, walks, walking, walkings, walker, walkers, walkies, walkable, walkathon. Furthermore, the current study goes beyond previous wordlist development by contributing accompanying pedagogical lists containing word associations (i.e. collocations) and word families.

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noun a set of etymologically related words

Deutsch	Wortfamilie

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@misc{word_family_2026,
  title = {word family},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/word%20family},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}