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However, the OED claims the string- strong link is doubtful. Strong and string share the prehistoric Germanic base *strang which the Online Etymology Dictionary states :strang- “taut, stiff,” from PIE root * strenk– “tight, narrow. O strengthen my heart! Could there be a strong connection to string?!! It was much later, the 14th century in fact, when this noun was used verbally as strengthen. Both strength and strong have evolved from a Proto Indo European root *strenk which indicated stiffness and tautness.The is from an hypothosized Proto Germanic noun suffix *itho indicating abstract nouns. It had a sense of bodily power, vigour and fortitude but also a sense moral endurance. Strength is an attested word from Old English: strengþu, strengð a strong feminine noun in Old English (OED). Read about the noun death dead and verbal diehere and consider how far do we go? But is it analyzed because the, once a suffix, can be replaced by the in dead? Is dead in fact ? Both death and dead have originated from the same ancient Proto Indo European root *dheu: to die. Yes inevitable, not always desired but what are the morphemes? We see the Old English deað is an etymon meaning “death, dying, cause of death which gives us the present day noun death. But just because it appears in words in present day English and was once a suffix, does that necessarily mean that it can be regarded as a separate morpheme in present day English? Consider death. We see that Old English, has a long history back to Proto Indo European root *-ita. We read the Online Etymology Dictionary entry concerning and see that indeed it is an element that forms ‘nouns of actions, states or quality’.

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We see as a free base element so warmth is formed from.

It becomes a question of how far do you go when analyzing a word. We know that just because it may have been a suffix in Old English does not mean it’s necessarily a suffix in the present day. Our question as to whether is always a suffix, if in the final position, is still there. Perhaps ‘recycycle’ and ‘reuse’ should apply to this word as well material items!! Not so! For more etymological diversion, read Douglas Harper’s etymological summation of the preposition after and his wry comments about the obsolete afterwit. In her haste to describe the surprising back-story of aftermath, the student above had assumed that after referred to grass.

This shares the same Proto Indo European root: *me– as Old English :mæd “meadow”.The word aftermath is a compound comprised of two Old English base elements. The verbal form is Old English mawan: to mow – remove that Old English suffix and you see the resemblance to present day mow. The free base element is from Old English noun mæð : mowing. Who would have thought that a word that has come to mean the result of a catastrophe, or unpleasant circumstance has its origins in harvesting and in particular, mowing? It refers to the second crop of the season, the crop occurring after the earlier one has been harvested or ‘mown’.

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