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Barnhart
barnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM
Fri May 21 23:18:39 UTC 1999
What about commissariat? {pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU,Net}
I immediately thought of prole-tariat.
There's also secretariat {prez234 at JUNO.COM,Net}
My point was founded on the general acceptance of the above terms being
loans from French. Also these terms can be identified as having -iat as a
suffix. In the case of mullahtariat the the second element is -tariat.
In commentariat I wonder if the form is from commentar(y) + -iat, in which
case I cannot think of a parallel of English origin, or from commen(t) +
-tariat, as in mullahtariat.
Regards,
David K. Barnhart
Barnhart at highlands.com
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