Pone not being an English word on its own is not really relevant. A lot of, if not most, Greek/Latin neologisms and combined words use a root that is never use

Pone not being an English word on its own is not really relevant. A lot of, if not most, Greek/Latin neologisms and combined words use a root that is never used as is. Both “neologism” and “combine” above are examples of this…