Timeline for Disoriented vs. Disorientated
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| Oct 27, 2014 at 23:54 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | First, they are not “false participles”. They are merely adjectives formed from nouns instead from verbs. No participles are involved, real or false. Kindly read the OED’s entry for the -ed² suffix. It gives examples like horned, ringed, toothed, booted, wooded, moneyed, cultured, diseased, jaundiced, bigoted, crabbed, dogged — amongst others. Notice how not one of those is a compound (read: multiword) adjective, so that isn’t true either. It is, however, now impossible to tell those formed from nouns apart from those that had been formed from verb now lost to us. | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 20:47 | comment | added | Martin | Compound adjectives are often formed from false participles like you "horn-rimmed", but the use of such false participles is usually limited to forming compound adjectives, which is, however, not the case in this example. | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 15:58 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | No, that doesn’t follow. The -ed suffix is used to make adjectives from nouns not just from verbs. Consider horn-rimmed glasses: there is no such verb as to horn-rim something. | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 14:07 | history | answered | Martin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |