Words similar to athon

Example sentences for: athon

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It will not do to heap scorn on -athon and denounce athoninators as licentious with language.
That forms like sale-athon retain the a even after the base element's e demonstrates that the -athon of marathon , rather than the -ethon of telethon , is perceived as the primary form of the suffix, but the matter has not been completely settled: consider alcothon (which I hope was a test of abstinence rather than indulgence).
But even in these extensions of the word, - athon was only part of a placename, even though now regularly applied to physical activities, and had no meaning on its own in either English or the original Greek.
Telethon seems here to stay, sanctioned by dictionaries, but no dictionary records the next innovation with -athon , and I can only guess that the new suffix began attaching to other base elements in the 1950s and '60s.
It describes in spirit, at least, how neomorphemes like -athon, -tigue, -burger, -(a)teria, -alator, -ercize/-icize, -ician, -aholic, -on, -capade, -cade, -alyzer, -gate, heli-, docu- have become affixes.