Hacker News: underneath_the_https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=underneath_the_Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:05:43 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by underneath_the_ in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"]]>I think exaggero is a denominative, derived from the noun agger 'pile' (itself a nominalisation of aggero i.e. "what is brought"). As such it took the default (productive) first conjugation. You can see a similar effect in English denominative which takes the productive past tense suffix -ed in highlighted, not *highlit.

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