What is another word for "stem"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "stem": abba, advance, advanced, ahead, ancestor, ancestral, ancestry, anterior, anteriority, beak, before, bend, birth, bow, brow, clan, coin, come, confront, consanguinity, countenance, dad, dam, descent, disc, disk, divine, est, extraction, facade, face, facia, family, father, fatherhood, fathership, first, fore, foreground, forehead.