Re: what does -il- do?

I sent this to the wrong place by accident.


The morphemes of "heavily" are:

 heavy-ly

when a "y" is found in this position, it is spelled
"i"

 hence:  heavi-ly

 it's just part of the root word, and has no seperate
function.

Sometimes, the "y" is an adjective formant:

 scare > scare-y (spelled: scary) > scary-ly (spelled:
scarily), same spelling rule.

~Elliott
--- Matt Arriola <azathoth500@...> wrote:

> I'm guessing the i- is just added to the regular
> adverbial -ly suffix
> to make it easier to say, considering it's
> unstressed
>
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:07:13 +0200, Rodlox
> <Rodlox@...> wrote:
> >  I was thinking again (no no, don't run
> YET)....and became curious as to
> > what matter of modifier (if that's the right word)
> -il- is.
> >
> >  For example...
> > "The wood is heavy."
> > "The forest is heavily wooded."
> >
> >  one does not (that I know of) say "the forest is
> heavy-wooded" or "the wood
> > is heavily"...so I thought to ask: what is the
> -il- that so affects some
> > words?  *curious*
> >
> >  thanks.
> >
>


		
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