This is impossible for a language
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(19-03-2026, 05:19 AM)oeesordy wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.No known language produces a 140 to 167 prefixes for its most frequent word.  The word would not make sense.  If you disagree show the list of words with the language and the prefix in front of that word and it probably does not have to be the most frequent word.

167 Unique values found

By coincidence, the English dictionary on my laptop has 167 words that end with 'logic':

logic
genealogic
dialogic
genethlialogic
analogic
...
ichthyologic
myologic
karyologic
embryologic
choplogic

And I bet that 'logic' is the most common of that set.  There may be bigger families, but I stopped looking there.

In Spanish and Portuguese, 'antes' is a very common word that means 'before'.  But it is also a suffix like English '-ents' and '-ants', so there are many hundreds of words that end with '-antes', like 'estudiantes', 'cantantes', 'passantes', ...

In Italian 'vino' of course is a very common word, but it is also the ending of all nouns and adjectives that end in '-vo' when inflected in the diminutive: 'bravo' -> 'bravino', and also of all verbs that end in '-vare' when inflected in the subjunctive 3rd plural: 'provare' -> 'provino', 'trovare' -> 'trovino'...

Rather than thinking of those examples of yours as "too many prefixes for daiin", think of daiin as a common suffix that is also a word by itself, like 'ring' or 'ally' in English.  Then that list will not seem so strange.

In some languages, like Swahili and Navajo, verbs are inflected by changing the prefix instead of the suffix.  Navajo has a couple hundred different prefixes for any verb, that are actually composites of several prefixes.

Many of those words in your list may be just two separated word that were written or transcribed as one word.  Which is expected to be a common accident when someone is copying or transcribing handwritten text in a language that one does not understand.  Do you know the story of the busillis?

All the best, --stolfi
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This is impossible for a language - by oeesordy - 19-03-2026, 05:19 AM
RE: This is impossible for a language - by Jorge_Stolfi - 19-03-2026, 08:03 AM
RE: This is impossible for a language - by Mauro - 19-03-2026, 04:33 PM
RE: This is impossible for a language - by oshfdk - 19-03-2026, 09:03 AM
RE: This is impossible for a language - by eggyk - 19-03-2026, 03:53 PM
RE: This is impossible for a language - by eggyk - 19-03-2026, 04:41 PM
RE: This is impossible for a language - by oshfdk - 19-03-2026, 07:57 PM
RE: This is impossible for a language - by Rafal - 19-03-2026, 03:39 PM
RE: This is impossible for a language - by quimqu - 20-03-2026, 08:05 AM
RE: This is impossible for a language - by ReneZ - 20-03-2026, 08:19 AM

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