Re: "conlanger" en Français?

Raymond Brown scripsit:

> Greek diphthong _oi_ was Romanized as _oe_ thus the suffix would, indeed,
> be -poeia.  Indeed from _mythopoiia_, English has the derivatives
> _mythopoeic_ /mIT@'pi:Ik/ (adj.) "myth-making", and _mythopoeist_
> "myth-maker".
The organization for the study of Lewis, Williams, and Tolkien is called
the Mythopoeic Society.

> Latin 'pontifex' survives in English both as 'pontifex' (with Latin plural:
> pontifices /pOn'tIfIsIz/) and as 'pontiff', but only with derived meanings
> and not the original meaning of "bridge-maker".
Lewis & Short says "origin obscure", and I have heard a theory that
the original form was "*pompifex", a maker of processions rather than
bridges.  This makes a lot more sense to me, and dissimilation of this
kind is not uncommon.

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