"The accrual, that's the noun root of the verb 'to accrue.' "

As a consequence, a noun root on its own can form a valid NP in a sentence.

When using nouns predicatively, the subject prefixes are simply added to the noun root:

There are two reasons for this: first, it is difficult to tell whether the noun "root" is intended to be indefinite, definite, or qualitative.

He went back to the Ashanti Coromanteen studies to extract compatible noun roots.

On the other hand, Greenlandic does often form verbs that include noun roots.

Before noun roots, it is used as a third person possessive prefix.

It is also used before a wide variety of semantically unrelated noun roots.

To form predicates from nouns the subject prefixes are simply added to the noun root:

All noun roots must have one high-pitch accented syllable.