Re: Singlular of "mouses" Was: Re: Negative ordinality

Quoting "M. Astrand" <ysimiss@...>:

> >Date:         Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:29:25 -0500
> >From: Estel Telcontar <estel_telcontar@...>
> >Subject:      Re: Singlular of "mouses" Was: Re: Negative ordinality
> >
> >Andreas Johansson ha tera a:
> >[...]
> >I once saw a list of self-referential linguistic terms like
> >"trucation", "methatesis" and "haplogy"; does anyone
> >know where it can be found?
> >
> >Found two different lists:
> >http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/ulsa/glossary.html
> >and
> >http://www.livejournal.com/users/dashi_ell/31427.html
>
> Isn't "assimilation" self-referential as such? I thought it came from Latin
> ad + similatio or something like that.
It is and it does. (Strictly speaking, I guess it rather comes from _ad_ + acc
_similationem_, but that's irrelevant.)

                                  Andreas