Re: Insane Question

 --- Tristan <kesuari@...> wrote: > > >
> -ion is another nominaliser, this time from Latin.
> -atus was the Latin
> past-participle suffix (like English -ed or
> sometimes -(e)n), and for
> some reason, when verbs were borrowed from Latin, we
> tended to take an
> anglicised form of the past participle as our root.
> It's just the suffix
> that gets added...
this comes from the latin formation of intensitive
verbs, which usually get the a- paradigm added to a
root identical to the past participle, so |habeo
habere| you get |habito habitare| and from from |no
nare| you get |nato natare|. these intensitive forms
then became the usual forms in vulgar latin and its
derivatives. so -ation words are the -ion- endings of
intensitive forms. of course you then get secondary
formations, which is why we have words like habitation
|habi-ta-t-ion| and french natation |na-ta-t-ion|

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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