LL-L "Morphology" 2009.07.20 (05) [EN]

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From: M.-L. Lessing <marless at gmx.de>
Subject: LL-L "Morphology" 2009.07.19 (04) [EN]

This reminds me of the interesting thread we had here about the "-ish"
ending getting popular. Might it be that in some time a new adverbial suffix
will be born?

Marlou
(Hamburg just now)

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

...
I understand that "-ly" came from Old English *lích *~ *líc ~ lík* from
which "like" came. In fact, in some Modern English dialects and also in
Scots you can still use adverbial constructions like "greedy-like" for
"greedily".

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