Re: Ancient conlang

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> Tangentially, is the ending -on occuring on so many particle-names (proton,
> muon, gluon, tachyon, et sim) simply generalized from 'electron', or is it a
> valid, so to speak, Greek affix for deriving nouns?
Well, it's the neuter nom. sg. ending, cognate to Latin -um, in proton
(first) and electron (amber); tachyon (fast) is also at least a Greek
root; the other cases are created by analogy.

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