👉 Wurzel (also known as "wurzelwort") is a Germanic word that originally meant something small or insignificant. In the context of linguistics, it can refer to a single word or a group of words. For example, in the sentence "Ich habe ein kurzes Wurm," "kurz" is a wurzel ("small") and "kurze" refers to "short." So, a wurzel-word is a term that has both a small (as in
