dep-th

Updated: May 7, 2025

A little of the force of -s and -en is anticipated by, or appropriated by, the words book and ox themselves, just as the conceptual force of -th in dep-th is appreciably weaker than that of -ness in good-ness in spite of the functional parallelism between depth and goodness.

Edward Sapir - Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech