Timeline for Are there words in Esperanto that are occuring only in Esperanto and aren't drawn from other languages?
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| Feb 1, 2017 at 8:40 | comment | added | Max | I don't find this particularly convoluted: if you ignore the bit about Kronprinzessin (which is hurdle for the theory that Zamenhof plucked edzo out of thin air, too), it's just saying the word edzino comes from rebetsin, and then the -in suffix was removed to make the male version. | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 15:30 | comment | added | psychoslave | -ul- might be approached with the latin root -ulus, used for create diminutives nouns, that you might find in derived words like credulous (en), crédule (fr) that would both be translated in Esperanto to kredema, rather than kredula. While ulo alone have, according to PIV, a pejorative connotation, -ul- doesn't seems to carry it. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 14:32 | vote | accept | Sir Cornflakes | ||
| Aug 30, 2016 at 10:26 | history | answered | Mutre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |