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As for Minoan, I am getting a feeling (after analysing the word-formation in geographically close Anatolian languages) that the (likely heavily derived) phrase (J)A-SA-SA-RA-ME might hide the word 'god', 'divinity' in its first part:
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The prostitutka side of the story is irrelevant to the child's word-formation sense specifically.
On be having DC 2009
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There were also certain irregularities in word-formation arising out of the need for rapid and easy speech.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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It might be an interesting concept, Dave, but it's an horrendous word-formation.
Chinese Solastalgia 2008
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The words in this book may be new, but the processes of word-formation that they use are not.
Archive 2008-12-01 DC 2008
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There were also certain irregularities in word-formation arising out of the need for rapid and easy speech.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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The words in this book may be new, but the processes of word-formation that they use are not.
On Kitchen Table Lingo DC 2008
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English is one of those languages where conversion is used as a major source of word-formation.
About that "scalping"... and other blogospheric collective activities. Ann Althouse 2007
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There has been a tendency to investigate lexical change by reference to new word-formation only.
On relevance in advertising DC 2007
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But such a word-formation has no analogy in the Hebrew language.
Phenomena The Daily Growler 2006
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