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minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoWe tend to limit it to two words most of the time, and most compound words in English are Germanic in origin.
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·19 hours agoWell 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.
We tend to limit it to two words most of the time, and most compound words in English are Germanic in origin.
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.