Talk:heteroradical

This word was invented by my son, Arkady English, not knowing that the work already existed (it's not listed in many dictionaries). He wrote to New Scientist about it.

Apart from this Wiktionary page, the only other references I can find to the word are at Jed Hartman's "Words and stuff" page. --Penglish 16:18, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

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RfV for the sense “A word of mixed roots (from Latin and Greek, for example).”; very believable, but some proof would be nice. † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 21:56, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

I've added a quote that might support this sense, but the actual meaning in context of the quote is not clear to me, even after reading the preceding paragraphs. --EncycloPetey 20:22, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

RFV failed, sense removed. (The quote is in a somewhat different sense; it's using it as an adjective to describe German sexed noun pairs like Mann (“man”) and Frau (“woman”), where the male and female counterparts come from completely different roots, as opposed to pairs like Löwe (“lion”) and Löwin (“lioness”), where one is derived from the other. I can't find any other uses of that sense on b.g.c. — and I looked through all the hits for both "heteroradical" and "heteroradicals" — so I didn't bother adding that sense. I put the quotation on the citations page.) —Ruakh_TALK 13:19, 2 March 2010 (UTC)