Re: CHAT: Early Conlang Archives
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 10, 1999, 21:14 |
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On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Sally Caves wrote:
> In- in Latin is just a such a prefix, both intensifying and
> negating. Inflammable means "likely to inflame." (the propensatory?
> <G>). But inedible... definitely not "likely to eat"!
I think that would be "likely to start eating" or even "likely to
start to be eaten" :-)
I know that in French at least "ininflammable" (note the two
prefixes) means "flameproof" (in order not to add to the confusion).
Irina
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