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

Nik Taylor 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)
Which in turn reminds me of a thing in Swedish.
If someone wins three times, he's a three-fold champion.
In Swedish this is called 'trefaldig'. If he wins twice
he's 'tvaafaldig' (a two-fold champion). But if he wins
one time, you can't say 'one-fold', in Swedish 'enfaldig',
because that means 'stupid, silly, foolish'. But you can,
obviously, have some fun with this. For instance you might=20
say that Ben Johnson was an 'enfaldig' champion... :)

Daniel Andreasson