Erasmic?
Jonathan Robie
jonathan at texcel.no
Thu Jul 16 14:04:19 EDT 1998
At 11:23 AM 7/16/98 -0400, David L. Moore wrote:
>At 09:34 AM 7/16/98 -0400, James Ernest wrote:
>>At the moment I can think of only one adjective that
>>ends with -smic, and it ain't Erasmic.
>>
> Seismic... Right?
Since he chose not to share it with us, perhaps he was thinking of
"orgasmic", but there are at least a good handful or examples:
cosmic
seismic
orgasmic
organismic
cataclysmic
cytoplasmic
Lots of words that end with -sm can be turned into adjectives by adding
-ic. Of course, as Carl points out, the -ic is the relevant morpheme.
Jonathan
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