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I just realized something from this comment. Asteroid is aster + oid... i.e. like a star (aster), but isn't. Hadn't realized it before!

• amelius 8y ago
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-oid https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-oid
  • mehrdadn 8y ago
    It wasn't that I had no idea what -oid meant (humanoid etc. made it fairly obvious), it was just that seeing it spelled out explicitly made me make a connection I hadn't before. Similarly with Android -- never realized it's andro (man) + [o]id.
• black-tea 8y ago
  This is why I post things like that, despite the downvotes. People start throwing around words and not thinking of their composition but it's usually really fun to notice it. Have fun spotting other -oids.
  • mehrdadn 8y ago
    Yeah, thanks! :)
  • kumarharsh 8y ago
    "Void = v, but not really." I'll get my hat...