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Words in card names
AJD:
Okay, with Nocturne out it's time for this again: here's a list of the words (well, content morphemes) that appear in the names of more than one card or card-shaped thing. With the 12 Boons, gift shoots to the top of the pack. Any errors are my own fault.
12:
Gift
Village (or 13: Villa, if you consider village to be decomposable into villa + -age)
8:
Castle
6:
Market
Trade
5:
Dame
Merchant
Sir
4:
Haunt
House
Hunt
Man
Treasure
Work
3:
Art (counting art as a constituent of artificer and artisan)
Bandit
Camp
City
Court
Curse
Duke (assuming duchy and duchess are decomposable into duke + -y, -ess)
Farm
Ghost
Gold
Ground
Land (counting land as a constituent of island)
Lose
Mine
Misery (counting misery as a constituent of miserable)
Royal
Room
Ruin
Sea
Secret
Ship
Smith
Wood
Zombie
2:
Apprentice
Black
Bridge
Caravan
Coin
Copper
Count (not really; the nobleman count and the verb count as in counting house are unrelated homonyms)
Cut
Delude
Den
Envy
Estate
Fair
Fool
Fort (assuming fort as a constituent of fortress)
Fortune
Grand
Guard
Hag
Hero
Iron
Keep
King
Library
Make
Mason
Mountain
Necro
Noble
Party
Pass
Post
Prince
Raid
Rat
Road
Scout
Shop
Spy
Stone
Swamp
Tax
Tell
Tower
Town
Triumph
Wall
Watch
War
Way
Wish
Witch
Wolf
Yard
And function words:
15: the
6: of
2: out, over
Cave-o-sapien:
Remind me again why Bank and Mountebank don't qualify.
It seems they both have the same Italian root.
AJD:
--- Quote from: Cave-o-sapien on November 17, 2017, 12:27:00 pm ---Remind me again why Bank and Mountebank don't qualify.
It seems they both have the same Italian root.
--- End quote ---
Truuuue, but I think that within English they don't have any kind of synchronic relationship, any more than do, say, "chance" and "cadence". (In other words, the list isn't about etymology; it's about synchronic structure.)
schadd:
my campus has some synchronic structures 🌈 but i don't have classes in them 😪💕
Cave-o-sapien:
--- Quote from: AJD on November 17, 2017, 12:28:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cave-o-sapien on November 17, 2017, 12:27:00 pm ---Remind me again why Bank and Mountebank don't qualify.
It seems they both have the same Italian root.
--- End quote ---
Truuuue, but I think that within English they don't have any kind of synchronic relationship, any more than do, say, "chance" and "cadence". (In other words, the list isn't about etymology; it's about synchronic structure.)
--- End quote ---
Then why do Fortune and Fortuneteller qualify? Isn't one about a large quantity of money and the other is about predicting one's luck or well-being?
I'm not trying to argue; I'm just not familiar with the linguistic terms and criteria you are using for this list.
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