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Re: Spanish and Italian _r_ and _rr_ -- for my Romlang #3

From:Antonielly Garcia Rodrigues <antonielly@...>
Date:Thursday, December 14, 2006, 18:13
On 12/14/06, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> > I think the form is used only with verbs of the -ar conjugation. I > don't recall ever seeing -er or -ir verbs used. >
"Cubrecamas" (blanket, lit. "covers-beds") is an example of composite word with a verb that is not in the "-ar" conjugation. Another examples are "abrelatas" (can opener, lit. "opens-cans") and "sabelotodo" (presumptious person, lit. "knows it all").
> > Someday I'm going to sit with my dictionary & make a list of all of > these verbs. They are fascinating to me. >
They are fascinating for me, too. If you make such a list, please publish it and tell us where it is. I found a website that contains some compound words that follow the verb+noun scheme (and other interesting schemes) in Spanish: http://www.ihaystack.com/authors/t/c_a_toledano/00015127_pitmans_commercial_spanish_grammar_2nd_ed/00015127_english_and_spanish_ascii_p027.htm Examples: Azotacalles (idler) Buscavidas (pryer) Cortaplumas (penknife) Chupaflores (humming-bird) Destripaterrones (navvy) Lavamanos (wash-hand stand) Limpiabotas (boot-black) Matamoros (boaster) Mondadientes (toothpick) Papahueros (ninny) Papamoscas (ninny) Papanatas (ninny) Paracaidas (parachute) Paraguas (umbrella) Pelagatos (ragamuffin) Pintamonas (slap-dasher or bad partner) Sacacorchos (corkscrew) Salvavidas (life-boats) Sepancuantos (slap or blow) There are many others in that website. In the Spanish Wikipedia there are some examples of "sustantivos compuestos" (anteojos, pararrayos, cascanueces, aguardiente, rascacielos, cortaunhas) in: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustantivo Also take a look at the following pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_%28linguistics%29 http://www.helloworld.com.es/english/quick%20reference/nouns/scn/compoundnouns.htm http://html.rincondelvago.com/lenguaje_10.html I would also like to collect such nice constructions. If you have further references, please tell us. Antonielly Garcia Rodrigues