Is there any Latin root more versatile than "-ject"?

[xiphias]

Reject -- throw back
Deject -- throw down
Project -- throw forward
Subject -- throw under
Conjecture -- thing thrown together
Abject -- throw away
Inject -- throw in
Eject -- throw out
Object -- throw against

I dunno. My brain just asks these things sometimes.

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Re: This is fun!

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Adjective -- throw to.

Re: This is fun!

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Trajectory, too -- thrown across.

tengwar

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Laura? (Check profile...) Oh, good, I haven't forgotten it all.

Re: tengwar

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Yup! Good reading, some people forget you can put the vowel symbol on the letter before or after. Or at least, so the tengwar guide I was following swore :)

Re: tengwar

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Although usually it's one or the other direction consistently for a given language/mode. Quenya words are generally vowel-final, and therefore (saith the Professor; the books are downstairs & I ain't going down for them now) the vowel follows the consonant it's written on (CV), while Sindarin, generally consonant-final, goes the other way (VC). The Tolkien Soc'y of America's English mode is VC, which is reasonable for English. The mode I developed for Esperanto is CV, which works well for Esperanto. Of course there's no reason a mode can't have structured exceptions (and in fact my Esperanto mode does).

[desperance.livejournal.com]

And "traject", which I only learned today - to transmit, transport. Obvious when you think about it, but I have clearly never thought (and never seen it in the wild).