Derivation: process of creating new words from existing ones by adding affixes; EX: love → lovable (affixe: -able), glory → glorify (affixe: -fy)

Shakespeare, Hamlet (III.iii): "My words fly out, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go." (King Claudius speaks)

PIE *potis: owner, master, husband; fem. *potnī: mistress; EX: Gk. πόσις, πότνια → δέσποτης, δέσποινα (*δεσ-ποτ(ν)ια); Lat. potis → possum, potestas

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