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MorphemeAddict ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol taghwI']



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In a message dated 2005-02-09 5:22:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> Instead of the unattested *{qaSmoH} "make (something) happen", use {raD} 
> "force, compel":
> 

Why call this unattested?  That makes it sound invalid.  Most of the 
derivative words used are "unattested", meaning they've never been used in canon, but 
that doesn't make them invalid or incorrect.  And {raD} doesn't capture the 
sense I had in mind.

lay'tel SIvten






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