Nominalized inflectional morphemes

[Mark A Mandel]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Scott Sadowsky wrote:

#The word "bus", from the Latin "omnibus", is curious in that it's a
#nominalized inflectional morpheme -- the ablative (I believe) of "omni".

We-ell... it's not an inflectional morpheme in English, and it was never
nominalized in Latin. IMHO it's parallel to "phone" < "telephone": the
last syllable of a word whose etym. structure is opaque to the
abbreviators. That doesn't answer your question, of course.

-- Mark A. Mandel