Category talk:Hindi lexical roots

RFDO discussion: February–September 2016
A user wants to propose (forcefully) a new category for lexical roots. I thought we could discuss it here. Surely if nothing else 'lexical' is redundant. What other sort of root could it be, a botanical root? Renard Migrant (talk) 12:29, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Redundant indeed. At the very least, rename to Category:Hindi roots to parallel Category:Sanskrit roots, Category:Hebrew roots, etc. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:23, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * A little context: the user came across the entries for and, which are obviously not affixes. Their solution was to invent a POS of "lexical root" to put them in. The solution that I and User:Aryamanarora chose was to nominate both the prefix and suffix for deletion as nothing more than  used in compounds. I give User:MWMKdu credit for recognizing the problem, even though I think their solution is wrong, with the potential for causing problems elsewhere- such as justifying entries for black- and -bird (as in blackbird) or bird- and -house (as in birdhouse). That said, There may very well be bound morphemes not found independently that have fallen through the cracks in our POS system- but I don't think  is one of them. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:44, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Agreed - the whole thing with "roots" can get very ambiguous at times, and we do not want to go there. —Aryamanarora (मुझसे बात करो) 02:05, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
 * We don't have an entry for -ceive, but if we did, what would we call it? We call -philia a suffix and phil- a prefix, but that doesn't really capture the fact that they're really the same thing just at opposite ends of the word. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 09:41, 20 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Deleted due to being empty (but there's also no reason to put anything in this category, ever). —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 01:18, 11 September 2016 (UTC)