Re: TAN: new words [was: RE: LONG: Latest Wenetaic Stuff]

Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:

> Reminds me of -peat in colloquial usage, as in "4-peat champions"
> ("four-time champions").  Origin:
> Repeat -> Threepeat (pun)
> Threepeat -> Fourpeat (reanalysis of -peat as suffix)
I'd never heard that, but I was just going to ask about it!
Is it a coincidence that 'repeat' has 're-' in it? Where does
it come from?


--Pablo Flores
  http://draseleq.conlang.org/pablo-david/