Re: Languages with the essential parts removed (was: Greek plosives)
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 17:15 |
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On 2/14/06, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> But there are some affixes where this would be difficult... say, "isäntä"
> (host), from "isä" (father) (non-productive), or "talous" (economy) from
> "talo" (house) (irregular; lit. "house-ness")
Interesting. Do you know if this is a calque of Greek "oikonomikos",
or an independent coinage?
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Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry
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