(OpenID?) (Forgot it?)
You're viewing [personal profile] upsticks's journal
Create a Dreamwidth Account  Learn More
Reload page in style:  light

Tense Around Apples

Tense Around Apples

Entries tagged with collecting

I always want to say "talken".

9/3/08 18:59
upsticks: (Back Alley English)
(  1. from adjs., as darken, deepen, harden, madden, moisten, widen. Most of the words of this type seem to have been formed in late ME. or early mod.Eng., on the analogy of a few verbs which came down from OE. or were adopted from ON.; e.g. fasten:{em}OE. fæstnian; ?brighten:{em}ONorthumb. berhtnia; harden:{em}ON. har{edh}na. In Teut. there are two classes of vbs. formed upon the ‘weak’ or lengthened stems of adjs. (suffix -on-): (a) the intransitive (or in sense pass.) vbs. which in Goth. make the inf. in -nan, and the pa. tense in -ôda; e.g. fullnan to be filled, f. fullan- full; gabignan to be rich, f. gabigan- rich; managnan to abound, f. managan- many; (b) the originally trans. vbs. in OTeut. (i)nôjan, e.g. OHG. festinôn to fasten, f. feston- (:{em}fastjon-) fast. In Eng. these two classes of vbs. can scarcely be discriminated with precision, but in most cases the intr. sense (as in deepen = ‘become deeper’) appears to be derived from the trans. sense (as in deepen = ‘make deeper’). )


In light of how many we've found so far, this suffix still confuses me.
Tags:
  • -en words,
  • collecting,
  • confused,
  • english,
  • geek,
  • i love the oed,
  • list,
  • lj as storage,
  • more tags than words in this post,
  • oed makes me look like a word nut,
  • public post,
  • suffixes,
  • talken,
  • the cut title is so awesome,
  • wierd,
  • words words words
  • Memory
  • Share
  • Link
  • 10 comments
  • Reply

Profile

upsticks: (Default)
upsticks

March 2017

S M T W T F S
   1234
567891011
121314151617 18
19202122232425
262728293031 

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Most Popular Tags

  • *explodes* [10]
  • doctor who [25]
  • doctor who is amaze again [10]
  • dreams [6]
  • election fever 08 [6]
  • english [5]
  • ew [5]
  • fangirly goodness [7]
  • flist [7]
  • gip [9]
  • grrr [5]
  • gutted [8]
  • here is the news [10]
  • hollyoaks [6]
  • hungry [5]
  • i am british; i drink tea and complain [6]
  • i heart ... [11]
  • i wish i'd stop making up tags [5]
  • i'm clearly rubbish at reviews [9]
  • iconage [11]
  • in real life [7]
  • laura needs you! [6]
  • linky [36]
  • lj as storage [9]
  • meme [20]
  • mobile post [8]
  • more tags than words in this post [7]
  • music [9]
  • obama obama he's our man [8]
  • obsessions [19]
  • ohyestheydid [7]
  • omg spoilers!!1! [6]
  • people are dicks [5]
  • photobucket [17]
  • pictures [17]
  • politics [6]
  • public post [213]
  • quotes [10]
  • rip [8]
  • shipping [5]
  • short [42]
  • squee [7]
  • telly [27]
  • torchwood [13]
  • tricky linguistics [8]
  • where the frick are the predictive tags? [6]
  • words words words [8]
  • writer's block [36]
  • xkcd [6]
  • youtube linkage [22]

Page Summary

  • I always want to say "talken".
Page generated 10/6/25 21:15

Style Credit

  • Style: Sorbet for Summertime by [personal profile] ninetydegrees
  • Resources: Texture by Design Shard, Icons by Romeo Barreto, John Caserta, Denis Chenu, Pedro Lalli, Marcus Michaels, P.J. Onori, Laurent Patain and Cor Tiemens from The Noun Project and Lemon Sorbet

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Top of page
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios