skinded

[Joan Houston Hall]

DARE has a pretty full entry at "-ed  suff."

At 06:30 PM 4/13/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Peter A. McGraw:
>>How about "drounded"?
>>
>>>Benjamin Barrett:
>>>Does anyone know the derivation or a rule for skinded (skinned) as
>>>in light-skinded?
>
>For 'drounded', it's analogy:
>
>sounded, rounded, founded, pounded, astounded, etc.
>
>I've never heard 'skinded'. It sounds to me something a child might say,
>along with 'he dided it' (instead of 'did it'). This too could be analogy,
>on winded, minded, etc, but I don't think so.
>
>
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