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

[Fritz Goerling]

And why did Hector get the bad name? Wasn't Achilles the greater bully?

 

Fritz Goerling

 

David Tuggy wrote: 


And how come we don't Achilles people?



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<snip>
But this pattern is samewhat hectic, even I didn't want to sound mentoring.

Fritz Goerling  <mailto:Fritz_Goerling at sil.org> <Fritz_Goerling at sil.org>
wrote: 

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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