Re: CHAT: Lost (was: Azurian.)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 9, 2007, 6:18 |
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Round these here parts, "compost" is /'kOm.post/ and "provost" is
/'pro.vOst/. Obviously YPMV.
> > I keep thinking there's a word I know of that ends in -most but which
> > doesn't actually come from compounding with the word most, but I
> > can't seem to think what it is. (As I recall, it originally ended in -
> > mest, which consisted of the final -m of the root and the superlative
> > morpheme -est, but was later remodeled by analogy to <most>.)
> >
>
> How about "utmost"?
No, the "most" in "utmost" feels like the same morpheme as the word
"most". Although I don't know what the ut- is. Shortened from
"ultimate" or something?
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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