• geissi@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    Yes that may be the reason why that difference exists.

    The usefulness of that tip is limited when encountering new words for the first time though.
    If I don’t know unanimous, chances are I don’t know if animous exists either.

    Edit: Also there is understand, which starts with un- although there is no ‘derstand’.

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      8 months ago

      One could argue “understand” is more clearly two words stuck together than others mentioned.

      Not that the two words combine meaningfully to create the new word!