deixis

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Laurence Horn<laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> At 12:14 PM +0200 8/17/09, Julia Achenbach wrote:
>
>>At least in German. I am not too
>>sure whether or not the same goes for English.
>
> It does for "deixis", "eidolon", and the other few <ei> words I can
> think of that have been imported into English.

kaleidoscope, seismic, meiosis, oneiromancy, cheiromancy...

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