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Re: The suffix -hood, was Re: Dictionaries of agglutinating languages

From:DOUGLAS KOLLER <laokou@...>
Date:Saturday, October 7, 2000, 1:56
From: "Amanda Babcock"

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that -hood only works on words > which satisfy the criterion "something which a person or people can be". > I got a quick and dirty list of -hood words by grepping /usr/dict/words, > and here they are: > > adulthood > babyhood > boyhood > brotherhood > childhood > falsehood > manhood > motherhood > nationhood > parenthood > peasanthood > sainthood > squirehood > widowhood > womanhood
> This is obviously not an exhaustive list. Can anybody come up with more > counterexamples beyond "falsehood"?
robinhood Kou