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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, December 20, 2003, 23:16
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