[Lexicog] Mentor and Hector - and derivations (was: mentee/mentoree)

Fritz Goerling Fritz_Goerling at SIL.ORG
Fri Jun 29 15:36:50 UTC 2007


It is interesting that from both heroes, Mentor and Hector, of Homer's
Iliad, verbs are derived in English,
"to mentor" and "to hector"? How come that there are further derivations
like "mentorees/mentees" 
but no "hectorees/hectees? 

Fritz Goerling
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