Genetic Descent

[Anton Sherwood]

>> what I am asserting is that the morphemes used in conjugation are
>> very resistant to borrowing.  ...

petegray wrote:

> The highly productive English morpheme -ess appears to derive (through
> Late Latin) from the Greek -issa which appears, from its phonetic
> shape and other factors, to be a loan into Greek from some substrate.

> So there's one interesting example, at any rate.

is <-ess> used in conjugation?

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