Re: Terminology query

On 2/25/06, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> "Examples of words with -ist and -ian endings include pianist and
> librarian."
>
> I find it interesting that, after describing the agentive ending as
> a suffix on verbs and giving as examples provider and builder,
> he/she then gives as further examples pianist and librarian,
neither
> of which is suffixed to a verb!
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:

>>Of course they are!  They're suffixed to the verbs "to piano"
>>and "to library", which respectively mean "to play the piano"
>>and "to work at the library".  Remember, this is English, where
>>any noun can be verbed. :)
I thought you might be right so I checked the AHD, but, alas, they
are not. :-)>  The reason I checked is that, while working with my
Senjecan vocabulary I learned that "carpenter" is a verb!  I would
have thought for sure that it was: I carpent, you carpent, he
carpents!  :-)

Charlie
http:\\wiki.frath.net/user:caeruleancentaur


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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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