Re: CHAT: Lost (was: Azurian.)

In a message dated 8/8/2007 11:45:35 PM Central Daylight Time,
rakko@CHARTER.NET writes:


> I keep thinking there's a word I know of that ends in -most but which
> doesn't actually come from compounding with the word most, but I
> can't seem to think what it is. (As I recall, it originally ended in -
> mest, which consisted of the final -m of the root and the superlative
> morpheme -est, but was later remodeled by analogy to <most>.)
>
How about "utmost"?

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