dumbre
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Does the ending dumbre have any particular meaning
certidumbre
muchedumbre
pesadumbre
That's all I can come up with at the moment.
I can't find anything related with those 3
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updated Jun 30, 2008
posted by motley
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It may have some meaning, but that meaning would probably be as obscure to a native Spanish speaker as the meaning of -ness, -ment, -edge, and so forth are to us. For example, certidumbre means certainty, and if I asked you what the suffix -ty means, could you answer? I couldn't, other than to say that it makes the verb into a noun. And that's what -dumbre does.
See p. 53 of the following:
http://www.tesisenxarxa.net/TESIS_UAB/AVAILABLE/TDX-1026101-112843//ipp1de2.pdf
updated Jun 30, 2008
posted by 00bacfba
