RE: What is a word?
What is a word?
Thanks for the questions –
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch woord and German Wort, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin verbum ‘word’.
What is a word
Word a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed.
Example: “I don’t like the word ‘unofficial’”