The stem of a word carries the semantic information of its inflections
the verdict
REFUTED
the evidence says no
refutedsupported
the weight of evidence
0 sources for · 2 against
AS REPORTEDno primary record reached; this is what the reporting says
Linguistic evidence shows that inflection adds grammatical information (such as tense, case, or number) to a word, rather than the word's stem carrying the semantic information of its inflections.