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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