From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 16 1998 - 13:31:48 EDT
At 11:43 AM -0500 7/16/98, Richard Lindeman wrote:
>
>By the way... does anyone know the derivation and root meaning of
>"-mic"? Perhaps that would decide the matter one way or the other.
>
And then again, it might not ...
the formative element -IK- used with OS/H/ON endings forms an adjective
having the sense, "pertaining to." There is no formative element -MIK-, as
such, but when -IK- is added to the stem of nouns in -MOS/-MA such as NOMOS
or the many nouns formed from -IZW stems (e.g., LOGISMOS from LOGIZW,
hELLHNISMOS from hELLHNIZW, NOMISMA from NOMIZW, KTL.), we get a lot of
Greek-derived adjectives in English -mic.
Carl W. Conrad
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