Nominalized inflectional morphemes

[Michael Quinion]

> The word "bus", from the Latin "omnibus", is curious in that it's
> a nominalized inflectional morpheme -- the ablative (I believe) of
> "omni". Can anyone think of any similar cases?

Oxford having yesterday published my book "Ologies and Isms", on
affixes, perhaps I might be allowed, with a modest cough, to present
"ology" and "ism" as possibilities?

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