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(11-05-2025, 09:48 PM)oshfdk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(11-05-2025, 09:22 PM)davidd wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Also "continuously" as a verb modifier to make it a continuing participle, like adding "-ing" to a verb stem in english seems a reasonable thing that could be the most frequent word.

But it's not only frequent, it also can be repeated.

In English, we append 'ish' and 'like' to many different words to denote whatever attribute it is. Reddish brown. Childlike.

Danish from Old Norse and English from Proto-Germanic both used -som/sum/some to indicate being characterized by a quality

Danish: agtsom = careful, kedsom=boring
English: wynsom(winsome) = attractive/pleasant, noysom(noisome) = offensive/unpleasant

Repetition can signal lots of different things. Intensification, continuation, purity, authenticity, or dialect-specific patterns
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Repetition of som could indicate equality between two things, or mean 'very much like'
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Solutions [discussion thread - moved] - by tavie - 06-08-2024, 10:54 PM
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