Another brilliant observation

[Mark Mandel]

That's why I said "stem", not "root". And  we use the -st- before "-ic":
Gnostic, agnostic.

m a m

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > what happened to the -t- of the stem?
>
>
> The -t- is part of the ending, cognate with English -(e)d-, not of the
> stem,
> gno-, cognate with English _know_.
>
> Unless, of course, Homer nodded.
>
> Youkneverknow.
>
> -Wilson
>
>

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