Morpheme
Luge
Type
bound base
Denotation
wash, flow
Etymology
Old French deluge, from deluve; Latin dīluvium, from dīluere, from dis- + -luere, from lavāre
Evidence
deluge, deluged, deluger, deluges, deluging, deluginous, undeluged
Notes
deluge and deluvium are doublets
Modern Base Analysis
<Delugine> denoting “deluge”
alternative modern base analysis without suffixal construction -inous
from deluge + -in-, on analogy of Latin -in- oblique stem of third declension (modeled on the oblique stem -in- but not from any specific Latin oblique stem)
deluginous
See Also
Luve, Luvi, Lute, Lu, Lave, Lote, Laut, Laund(e)r [Launder, Laundr], Latrine
