SOL word family

When it comes to studying how the lexicon is organized within the linguistic system of a language, it is essential to fully understand the concept of "word family". A word family is a group of words made up of terms that are semantically derived from the same word, which acts as a base and is known as a primitive word. In this lesson from a TEACHER we will review the concept of word family in Spanish and exemplify it with the word family for "sun". Keep reading!

A word family is a set of words that share some semantic feature common to the same word, on which the whole family of words that receives the name of "primitive word".

The primitive word is the original word that does not come from any other and that serves as a starting point, since all the other words that make up the lexical family share at least one of their significant features with the primitive word, which is the one that contains the largest number of significant features, common to the rest. As a general rule, primitive words are usually, at a morphological level, nouns or verbs. The primitive word of the word family that concerns us in this article, "sun", is therefore a noun.

On the other hand, all the other words that make up the word family are called derived words, since all of them originate from the primitive word. These words are generally nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. that sometimes become compound words.

Another important aspect when studying word families are the two elements that make up a word. A word, in Spanish, is formed from two parts: the first is the lexeme (also known as root) which is the fixed part of the word (except for some allomorphy in the root), since it does not change in its form and, normally, it is common to most of the words that make up the word family, since through this element the semantic feature common to all of them is preserved they.

The second part that makes up a word is the grammatical morpheme; that is, the part of it that does vary according to the meaning of the word. The morpheme can be inflectional (that is, the gender, masculine or feminine, and the number, singular or plural) or derivative (by means of word creation processes such as suffixation or prefixation, among others) and, finally, it can also be an ending verbal. Each and every one of the morphemes that exist in Spanish, as such, have minimal significance, since this is an essential quality to consider something as a morpheme. In this video we discover you in more detail what is a lexeme and what is a morpheme, in case you have doubts about it.

Once you know what the parts of a word are and how a lexical family is constituted, we can go on to explain it through an example: the "sun" word family.

Once we have explained the concept of what a family of words is, we are going to describe and detail which are the words that make up the lexical family of "sol".

Then. We have collected some of the most representative ones, which are the following: "sunny", "sunny", "parasol", "solstice", "sunflower", "solana", "solar", "sunshade", "sunny", " solanar ", "Mirasol", "solazo", "resol", "resolano", "resolana", "insolar", "insolación", "solecito", "caraol", "antisolar", "sunny", "sunny", "solaleo "," sunbathe "," solanera "," circumsolate ", "extrasolar".

Now it's your turn: Do you know any other words belonging to the lexical family of "sun"? Go ahead and share it with us!