Re: Exocentric Derivation in Gweydr

Quoting "David J. Peterson" <dedalvs@...>:

> I think it could.  What I think it does is it gives an arbitrary marking
> to particular members of a set, such that if you know one member,
> you automatically know 4 others--even if you don't know the
> meaning.
The closest real-world analogue for this I can think of is the variation by
more-or-less empty suffixes sometimes seen in biological nomenclature. Frex, in
1933-'34 Roewer named a bunch of solpugid genera as follows:

Solpugarda
Solpugassa
Solpugeira
Solpugella
Solpugema
Solpugopa
Solpugorna
Solpuguna
Solpugyla
Solpugelis
Solpugiba
Solpugista

Now, a major difference is that this isn't done systematically, but I thought it
deserved mention.

                                                       Andreas

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