• samus12345@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    We tend to limit it to two words most of the time, and most compound words in English are Germanic in origin.

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      19 hours ago

      Well yeah I didn’t think about that but that’s usually true for the roots. The crazier ones I’m thinking of are with stacked prefixes/suffixes.