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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Jim Henry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> What about prefixing just one of the components of 'electricity'? Either
"eleħtriə" in Deini, "eleħtri" for "electric".
>> The commonest Sw. word for electricity is _el_, formed just like this.
>> The full form _elektricitet_ exists too.
>
> For that matter, English "auto" < "automobile" and "photo" <
> "photograph"; or British English "telly" < "television". I'm fairly
> sure there are several other clippings of such like compounds of Greek
> and/or Latin origin which aren't coming to mind. (Among others, some
> formal sexual orientation and gender identity terms are clipped to
> just the prefix to form colloquial or derogatory terms.)
>
> Esperanto has "kino", a shortening of "kinematografo", and some others
> (e.g. "aŭto" and "foto" which are like their English cognates).
I use a lot of those in Deini "auto", "foto", and "kino" are all included.
> I seem to recall French has some such terms the parallels of which
> don't occur in English -- my vague recollection is that "psycho"
> (/(p)si.ko/) means "study of psychology" rather than "psychotic
> person" as English /saj.ko/, but I am subject to correction by the
> native speakers. And maybe "hyper" < "hypermarché" (supermarket)?
There is "hiper" in Spanish.
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