Timeline for Forming adjectives via suffixes, exhaustive approach
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| Jan 28, 2015 at 12:56 | comment | added | Georgi | 1] ... angles to usher them to their Real-Nature (absolute reality, peace and bliss) from the realm of their apparent nature, which is their jivahood or monadhood. 2] A monad which becomes buddha simply re-enters its own monadhood; or to speak in the technical language of the Mahayana Buddhist philosophy, the buddha ... 3] This theory has the disadvantages of practically denying the independence of mind from body and of separating monadhood from selfhood. We have godhead/godhood/selfhood/monadhood, godLY (an adverb as well) selfISH and monadIC/monadAL, funny how postfixes vary. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 12:48 | comment | added | Georgi | As for 'monad' and using compound nouns: The unity of the Godhead is such that the work of each is the work of all, and therefore the worship of each is the worship of all. Christians do not serve a monad person as deity; but the God of heaven and earth is revealed as existing in a trinity of Persons. The attempted exclusion of any one or more Persons of the Godhead in worship is to profane the worship entirely. God, in the fullness of the divine essence, is to be worshipped. That's why I hold dear words as monad/dyad/triad. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 12:45 | comment | added | Georgi | As I said I am in search for the entire plentifulness of words, not for the restricted (widely accepted) ones. One word may be used only one time in some obscure text, it is enough for me to grab it. You may try Google Books: 1] They were driven back (August 16) by the numerically superior Serbian army, inadequately equipped but battlewise from their Balkan Wars experience... 2] ...and so were likely to meet battlewise veterans while they themselves were still novices. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 0:26 | comment | added | Omnidisciplinarianist | Now that I think about it, perhaps you are getting confused with a habit of english speakers to use a proper noun as an adjective, such as "That was rather Simon Cowell of you" where Simon Cowell is standing in for the word harsh or mean in this case. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 0:17 | comment | added | Omnidisciplinarianist | While battlewise as you use it may be colloquially understood, I am under the impression that the correct way to state that would be battle-wise (wise in the ways of battle). As a single word, battlewise would be an adverb noting the reference to battle, not wise to it. And I'm unsure of how calling something monad would be an adjective. To my ears, using monad as an adjective would be the same as "That man has an ox jaw" instead of "That man has an ox-like jaw" which are two completely different things. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 20:55 | comment | added | Georgi | What about MW, Main Entry: battlewise Function:adjective : having knowledge of or experience in battle battlewise troops; Main Entry: monad Function:adjective : of the nature of a monad; Also monadIC; Also monadAL; Also monadICAL | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 20:39 | comment | added | Omnidisciplinarianist | The suffix -wise turns words into adverbs. The suffix -ad turns words into nouns. And while the suffix -ple can be used on adjectives, it doesn't form adjectives from other words. I was simply doing as OP asked and listing only the adjective-forming suffixes. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 19:57 | comment | added | Georgi | Just saw your profile, in case of you being interested in biggest known to me English wordlist you can see my compilation called called 'Goyathlay' featuring 656,563 distinct words at: forum.thefreedictionary.com/profile696240.aspx | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 19:51 | comment | added | Georgi | Recently I asked -AD, -PLE related question: english.stackexchange.com/questions/222154/… I am fond of such numerals, how much more expressive is to start a sentence with: Hexadecad-threaded tool is in use. instead of 16-threaded tool is in use., yes? Somehow starting a sentence with a number is not right in my eyes. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 19:41 | comment | added | Georgi | Thanks, wanted to vote up but no enough rep points, grmbl. From my standpoint, your list adds two more postfixes -TH, -LIKE. To me -*OUS are all the same since my search will be anyway for *ous. To me each and every postfix is dear, it opens the possibility for easy enriching of one particular wordlist with words (with specific postfix) from another wordlist. For example I made 74 pages with new words in this way, the second wordlist was MW dictionary with its built-in wildcard search. How about -AD, -PLE, -WISE as in monAD, triPLE, speedWISE? I wonder how many left unlisted! | |
| Jan 26, 2015 at 18:16 | history | edited | Omnidisciplinarianist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 26, 2015 at 17:51 | history | answered | Omnidisciplinarianist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |