The Weirdness of Verb Derivations

In languages that use diminutives a lot, their proper sense just gets evaporated over time. By the time you get to post classical ancient Greek, it's not uncommon to see words with two or three different diminutive suffixes all piling up on the same. So verb derivation can be really weird in general. It can be. We should invite David Peterson on for that. He said he likes transitivity changing. Vaylency changing operations make him happy.