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Tue 15 Mar, 2016 06:34 am
Here, I have encountered several special suffix that changes the meaning of the stem, while most of others do not, but just build up the meaning.
E.g. respect-respectable-respectful-*respective; in this group, after adding -tive, the meaning of the stem(respect) disappeared.
The other one I know is: success-successful-*succession
Do you know other groups of words like them? Thanks for your help.
@rogergx,
You have two different things going on here. In the first case, respect -> respective uses a different definition of respect than the other cases you sited. (Respect like used here: "In this respect, he was lacking.") In the second case, you are assuming that similar words are related. Succession is more related to succeed than success.
@engineer,
Thanks. I did not think of that. I always use the first definition of respect, but not the one in your sentence. I know now that it is because I am not familiar with the different definitions of the root words.
But, in your knowledge, could you show me similiar examples to these two cases?
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