Happy Friday!
I learned a new grammar term this week:
A frequentative is an adjective or a noun that comes from a verb, but describes a repeated action.
For instance, sparkle is the frequentative of spark.
If you have sparks over and over, you have sparkle.
Or, more likely, you have fire, but you know what I mean.
Blabber is the frequentative of blab.
Flitter is the frequentative of flit.
How fun are these?
They’re so fun they make me want to float repetitively – or flutter.
They’re so fun they’re like a gleam of light – happening repeatedly – or a glimmer.
This is opening up such a fun set of words to me that I’ll be bringing more to you in the future. But for today, here’s one more gem:
You know the word scuttle? It’s the frequentative of scud.
Am I the only one who didn’t even know scud was a word?
I know about scud missiles from the Cold War, but look:
scud (v.) – move fast in a straight line because or as if driven by the wind
Yes. You can scud. They can scud. Anyone or anything can scud.
Stay tuned as we dabble (frequentative of dab) in more frequentative fun!
May your Friday scud by and let you flitter in the sparkle of the weekend.
Happy Reading!
Janice
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