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

FFlores wrote:
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> Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
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> > 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?
Latin "re-" + "petere/peto" (aim at, seek, "go for it")