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

From:Amanda Babcock <langs@...>
Date:Friday, October 6, 2000, 23:44
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:

> From: "Amanda Babcock" > > > This is obviously not an exhaustive list. Can anybody come up with more > > counterexamples beyond "falsehood"? > > AARGH!!! "hardihood".
That's a new word to me :) Thanks for the counterexample. It seems more compliant than "falsehood", at least if it means "the state of being hardy" as I think it does. "Falsehood" has come to mean "a lie", which is a little further from the regular -hood mechanism. Amanda