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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "Morphology" 2007.11.16 (04) [E]

Sandy Fleming wrote:

Then it would have to be made up from Greek roots, Ron, "cutification"
won't do!
...

Well, the Reinster said "cutesification", with an S. I'd say this had a
reason, because it was about the S as a special suffix here. Am I right?
So, I think "cutesifaction suffix" is a perfectly fit term for this
special affectionate S!

Ingmar

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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "Morphology" 2007.11.16 (04) [E]

typo, I mean cutesification, not cutesifaction of course!

> Sandy Fleming wrote:
>
> Then it would have to be made up from Greek roots, Ron, "cutification"
> won't do!
> ...
>
> Well, the Reinster said "cutesification", with an S. I'd say this had a
> reason, because it was about the S as a special suffix here. Am I right?
> So, I think "cutesifaction suffix" is a perfectly fit term for this
> special affectionate S!
>
> Ingmar

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Morphology

See, folks? *Some*one got it.

You give people cutesifaction by cutesifying names, just as by satisfying
people (by means of satisfication, of course ;-) ) you give them
satisfaction. So there!

Sandy and I wrote:

Then it would have to be made up from Greek roots, Ron, "cutification"
won't do!

Right you are. Let's see ... something along the lines of "onomatopoeia" ...


Noun: metharmchariterpnia or metharmchariterpnosis
Verb: metharmchariterpnotize

   - μεθαρμ- (*metharm-*): change (into), make a change
   - χαριτέρπν- (*charitérpn*-): delightful, charming, enchanting

At second thought, "onomatopoeia" is really an anomaly, and the ones Sandy
forced me to create sound like diseases or last-ditch treatments mental
health specialists subject folks to, don't they? Linguistic terms are
usually Latin-derived while most health-care terms are Greek-derived. So,
how about the following Latin-derived proposals?

Noun: blandification
Verb: blandify

   - *bland-* >
   - *blandire* 'to flatter', 'to caress', 'to coax'
   - *blanditia* 'flattery', 'allurement', 'attraction', 'charm'

Noun: delenition
Verb: deleniate

   - *delen-* >
   - *delenire *'to soften down', 'to soothe', 'to charm'
   - *delenimentum* 'that which softens, soothes or charms'

Noun: delicification
Verb: delicify

   - *delic-** >
   - *deliciae* 'allurements', 'attraction', 'charms', delights',
   'fancies'
   - *delicia*, *delicius *'darling', 'sweetheart'

* This is found in words like "delicate" and "delicious", also to the
archaic words "delice" (= "delight"), "delicies" ("delights", 'joys"),
"delicities" ("delights", 'joys") and "to deliciate" ("to delight", "to
enjoy oneself"). "Delight" looks like it too, but the *OED* claims it comes
from a misspelled rendition of Middle English *delit* from Old French *delit
*, from Latin *deliter*. But isn't that related also?

Reinhard/Ron
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