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unindations

 
ane
n inon un           1

enable
unable
 
unénable
enúnable
 
unúnable           2

at last, however, being ununable

unc.
unca,
unco           3

unck
uncked
ununcked           4

uncome
uncomes come

uncomes           5

unda
undula           6

inúndula
uníndula
uníndulata
inúndulata           7

inundate
unindate           8

vast mazy, unindating flood
liable to unindation, and cut
sometimes the unindation is so sudden
the Unindation; or
by unindation from           8a-e

indelible
undelable
unindelable           9

undern           10

undone
undones           11

undex           12

undern days
undones done
quyk erthe among undure as lie is made

undure           13
unjure           14

unscape
on the wish

nunscape
anunscape
ununskup           15

únsula
únsular
unwater           16

unwatered           17
unthing

unthis
unthat
unthis that thut thing

unsome
unwhat

unsum
unsong           18

eene verkorting von
perhaps unsong is the name of the new art.
unsong there were very few

undersome
unsion
unsions           19

unstruct
unward

unhere
unwhere

unward
unwards           20

unword
unwords these           21
unders

ununder
 
únununder
unúnunder           22

un o
n inen an           23

un

sources and asides

method —
initially, extrapolate from existing forms, to others;
without euphony, nothing;
no attempt at completion;
started with sound, in fact... but got waylaid (by sourcings); sound remains.

among sources or, more often, looks to see if a particular form existed, were —
the OED,
the Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, and — most importantly — Joseph Wright his
English Dialect Dictionary Volume VI. T-Z (1905), where the prefixed un doesn't always mean “back” or to “undo” a thing or action.

...a bad linguist, tangling my words at will.
— Jessica J. Lee, turning, a swimming memoir (2017) : 212
 

27 October 2018
tags: excess; un; Jessica J. Lee