Popular Etymology

1. About Stems

2. The Stem of a Word

The stem is that part of a word which from the point of view of meaning and structure cannot be further sub-divided.
For instance, ‘begin’ is the stem of the word ‘beginning,’ with the ‘ing’ forming a suffix. Words with the same stem are generally linked in meaning.

Stems can be divided into two categories as far as meaning is concerned:

1. Noun stems

2. Verb stems