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In the nicknames Babs and Nobs, the suffix -s is an old diminutive suffix like - y; in fact, a few nicknames apparently combine the two: Betsy, Patsy, and Nancy.
In one interval checked, W reveals Montague (Romeo's family name), Montmorency (a kind of cherry), Montrachet (wine), monuron (a herbicide), moon-eye (a fish), moon-eyed (open-eyed), and moonflower , as headwords not in L ; the same interval in L reveals montbretia (a plant), Montessorian (teaching method), month of Sundays , Montilla , -mony (suffix) Moog synthesizer , moon daisy (the oxeye), moon-faced , moonglow , and moonrat , which do not appear in W . Leaving aside the plants and animals, which are differently distributed for American and British users, the only significant omission from L is Montrachet , while the important words omitted from W are Montessorian , month of Sundays , -mony , Moog synthesizer , moon-faced , and moonglow . The last word is not in the RHD II , but it should be, for the L citation is from Henry Miller and the word also appears in the lyrics written for the popularized rendition of Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony.
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).
mégalomane, cocaïnomane, héroïnomane, éthéromane, etc.--ending in the similarly pronounced but very different Greek-rooted suffix - mane . ( Belle Epoque specialists will recall the celebrated night-club-performer-cum-anatomical-wonder Le Pétomane, much admired for his ability-- mirabile rectu!
Sealed-beam headlights , for example, were corrupted into Silbim in Hebrew; but - im is the masculine plural suffix for nouns-- kibbutz, kibbutzim, for example.
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