Re: The suffix -hood, was Re: Dictionaries of agglutinating languages
| From: | Amanda Babcock <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 6, 2000, 23:44 |
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On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
> From: "Amanda Babcock"
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> > This is obviously not an exhaustive list. Can anybody come up with more
> > counterexamples beyond "falsehood"?
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> 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