IMIPOLEX

[David Morris]

--- calbert at tiac.net wrote:
> David Morris:
> > Don't have access to OED (damn), but if "imi" isn't _really_ a prefix,
> > what is it?  If it's not really a part of speech, how can it have
> > other than an imagined "function?"  "Imigrate" doesn't imply
> > replication, does it?
> 
> I'll still love you, but it is "iMMigrate"......and I'll be the first to
> admit that my spelling kinda sucks.......

Thanks for the love.  I need it.  And my poor spelling doesn't require my
admission of it.
 
> > "Im," though, is a prefix, the one used in both "imitate" and
> > "imigrate."
> 
> no, "im" is NOT identified as a prefix in either Webster's Unabridged 
> or the OED.....but when you do get your hands on one, check out 
> the high correspondence between words starting with "im" (not 
> followed by a second 'm') and the notion of copying or replicating.....

Right again (and you also Jeremy).  As you noted earlier "imitate" is from
"imitatus/ imitari," which might be to be related to "imago" from whence we get
"image."  Again a copy is implicit.  I think you're right.

David Morris

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