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Re: Zero-ness

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 9, 2000, 17:35
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:23:47 -0500 > From: "Thomas R. Wier" <artabanos@...>
> I vote for "abessile" -- 'having the quality of lacking'. Besides, where'd > the <u> in "abessular" come from? :)
I think that derivational strategy wants a perfect participle as well --- sedeo -> sessus -> sessilis. The u was probably left over from agunulunative when that CONLANG term of art fell before the agglutinative standard. Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)