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MorphemeAddict@hidden.email wrote: > > Do the following words, all based on the probability modal "ka", have the > meanings I've given here? > > kamo - agnostic, accepting as possible > kami - agnostic, one who accepts something as possible > lekami - agnosticism, open-mindedness > jukami - unbeliever, disbeliever, one who accepts as untrue or impossible > jukadomi - myth, something accepted as untrue or impossible > vokami - skeptic (person), one who accepts as unlikely or improbable > gekadomi - supposition, conjecture, something accepted as likely or probable > bikami - believer, one who accepts as true > The 'agnostic' derivations are close enough, as long as you don't need to convey the history of the word "Agnostic" or the philosophy behind it. I don't like 'myth' as a gloss for "jukadomi" because it's too specific. "Jukadomi" simply means 'something that is not accepted as true'. For example, I can apply "jukadomi" to the statement "The sun is a big hot pizza" even though it is not a myth. The word "myth" really should have a unique root in the "-xwi" class. I would use the passive derivation "gekasomi" instead of the middle derivation "gekadomi" for 'supposition/conjucture', since the English words can take passive arguments, as in "the recent conjectures/ suppositions BY the press". I have no problem with any of the others, and have incorporated them into the dictionary. Thanks! Feel free to do more derivations whenever the mood takes you. It saves me time. Regards, Rick Morneau http://www.eskimo.com/~ram