What should I call it?

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#321282 Mon, 29 Jan 07 03:39 AM

We all know that slow and slowly are the adverbs and adjectives for slowness, meaining they all belong to say the same class or enitiy or I don't know what. Please can someone tell me if there is a name for such classes. I hope I made my ptint clear. Let me give another example;

Noun                           Adverb                        Adjective
laudableness                laudably                        laudable

Now laudatory is not a part of this class. So what is a formal word (if any) to define these classes.

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#321368 Mon, 29 Jan 07 08:44 AM

I don't think I understand the question. Nouns, adjectives, and adverbs are called parts of speech. Is that the terminology you're looking for? The study of how words are put together using meaningful prefixes and suffixes like -ness, -able, -ly, and so on, is called morphology. Is that the word you're looking for?

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#321376 Mon, 29 Jan 07 09:09 AM

OK. let me ask my qustion in a raw form. If I asked you that what does laudable means; you probably would say that it means praiseworthy and it's from laudableness. Now can I call laudableness a root from which further extentins (laudable and laudably) are formed or should I call it nothing .
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