Re: CHAT: autological linguistics terms; faux amis

On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> I have been trying to collect autological linguistics terms (those which
> apply, or can be applied, to themselves).  So far I have:
>
>         savarabakhti < svarabakhti 'a vowel inserted
>         into a consonant cluster to ease pronunciation'
>
>         haplogy < haplology 'the omission of one of two identical
>         consecutive syllables.
>
> Any inspiration?  I'm working on something for "folk etymology"
> right now; so far the best I have is "fork etymology".
I used to have a list of these somewhere, but the only one I can
remember off hand is 'vowol hormony'.

Here are some I just made up: rereduplication (or reduduplication),
inexpletivefixation, methatesis, gemminnation, syncpe.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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