Thread:User talk:CodeCat/hu-suffix/reply (7)

When several patterns of derivation form a common whole, then speakers might sometimes coin terms that skip the intermediate steps. And sometimes the intermediate steps are actually back-formations. Hungarian is definitely not the only language where this happens. I'm not really sure what should be done when an intermediate form is expected, but not attested or actually attested much later. I wonder what the other editors think of this.