Re: infix
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 22, 2001, 1:52 |
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In a message dated 3/21/01 4:02:31 PM, romilly@EGL.NET writes:
<< I'm curious: in all this discussion of Arabic, no one has mentioned /mu-/
as in mujahid(in) 'holy warriors', < jihad 'holy war'; I assume it's also
present in Muhammad, and perhaps Mubarak (leader of Egypt). Are these
lexicalized, or is mu- still as productive as the others? >>
As far as I know, /mu-/ isn't a prefix, it's part of an infix, or actually
part of several, just like /s-/ and /Ist-/ and /ta-/. But anyway, my point
wasn't to list all the infixes, just to show how infixes can work. And I was
just making up stuff for Tagalog. After all, that's what we do best, right?
-Jenesis