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> I say this to justify a theory. Well then your theory is wrong, there are numerous onomatopoetic words that have suffixes etc. Why wouldn't they? No matter w

> I say this to justify a theory. Well then your theory is wrong, there are numerous onomatopoetic words that have suffixes etc. Why wouldn't they? No matter what you think about this specific word. I didn't really understand the rest of what you wrote. >There is very little chance to actually experience a foreigner Would this be referring to foreigners in Ancient Greece? Then it's just factually incorrect.

posterboy 8y ago
I said "spontaneous". see the sibling comment two levels up.
posterboy 8y ago
> I didn't really understand the rest of what you wrote. We know that anciently transmitted etymologies are unreliable What's so hard to understand about that? I think that's a fact, too.