Nominalized inflectional morphemes

Scott Sadowsky lists at SPANISHTRANSLATOR.ORG
Fri Aug 30 03:18:18 UTC 2002


The word "bus", from the Latin "omnibus", is curious in that it's a
nominalized inflectional morpheme -- the ablative (I believe) of "omni".

Can anyone think of any similar cases?

Cheers,
Scott


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