Talk:-forsaken

Quotations

 * 1) * 1848, Robert H. Taylor, Poems, page 100
 * "THE SONG OF THE JOY-FORSAKEN" Tho' all is bright / 'Mid mirth and light, / Wherever beauty dwells, / No scene from me / Wakes song and glee, / No joy my bosom swells.
 * 1) * a. 1909, John P. Sjolander, "To Daphne, Dead", in eds., Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent, Library of Southern Literature
 * O Daphne! Daphne! Daphne! The land is song-forsaken / The stream runs slow and shallow 'mong reeds that break, wind-shaken.

RFD discussion: June–July 2017
I don't think this is a suffix. Even the usage notes are sceptical about it! Equinox ◑ 13:04, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Barytonesis (talk) 12:51, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, it's just an adjective that can be used in combination using a hyphen. DonnanZ (talk) 16:00, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

I'm not so sure, godforsaken does not use the hyphen. Kiwima (talk) 22:34, 28 June 2017 (UTC)


 * That's not a reliable sign. "Teaspoon" and "soupspoon" can have no hyphen, but it doesn't make "-spoon" anything like a suffix. Equinox ◑ 22:41, 28 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Compare how goddamned is not using a suffix *-damned (nor a prefix *god-!), but just the word damned. - -sche (discuss) 00:27, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, godforsaken is clearly god forsaken that's become one word, not from stem + suffix. 2.30.98.172 11:35, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Deleted. — SGconlaw (talk) 19:32, 10 July 2017 (UTC)