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*
There isn't one. That's "heavy" plus "-ly". It's just a spelling thing that
turns the final y into an i in this case: *heavyly -> heavily. Same thing
with happy -> happily, or angry -> angrily.
M