stem

/stɛm/

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

中文释义：词干

In linguistics, the stem of 'unhappiness' is 'happy' after removing affixes.

在语言学中，'unhappiness'的词干是去掉词缀后的'happy'。

Students must identify the stem of each word in the morphology exercise.

学生必须在形态学练习中识别每个词的词干。