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choice of vowels

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In English ... an -o- interfix is sometimes used, as o has come to be seen as a connecting vowel by analogy to ... compounds of which the first part comes from an Ancient Greek noun whose stem includes o.

In Greek, I believe, the link vowel is always o even if the root stem is something else. (In Latin it's usually i.)

In Russian the most popular interfixes are letters -o- and -e-.

I assume that depends on whether the preceding consonant is hard or soft, respectively. —Tamfang (talk) 18:40, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]