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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:

    Is Etruscan ais 'deity' an Indo-European loanword? 2010

  • The prostitutka side of the story is irrelevant to the child's word-formation sense specifically.

    On be having DC 2009

  • There were also certain irregularities in word-formation arising out of the need for rapid and easy speech.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • It might be an interesting concept, Dave, but it's an horrendous word-formation.

    Chinese Solastalgia 2008

  • 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

  • There were also certain irregularities in word-formation arising out of the need for rapid and easy speech.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • There has been a tendency to investigate lexical change by reference to new word-formation only.

    On relevance in advertising DC 2007

  • But such a word-formation has no analogy in the Hebrew language.

    Phenomena The Daily Growler 2006

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