Talk:-cycle

RFD discussion: May 2019–April 2020

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-cycle

Not a suffix, in my opinion. It doesn't form new words by attaching to existing words. —Rua (mew) 20:05, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

Cycle is the root anyway, so I would say delete. What staggers me is that it has survived since 2005. DonnanZ (talk) 09:18, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Delete per nom. Julia ☺ ☆ 17:53, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Probably delete the entry as it stands now, defined as "circle"(!). Someone might be able to find enough citations to recreate it with a bicycle/tricycle/motorcycle-related sense, see e.g. google books:"jetcycle", google books:"ponycycle", google books:"horsecycle", google books:"ride my catcycle". ("Forming compounds for conveyances which are like bicycles or motorcycles combined with or intended for the other element of the compound."?) That kind of use seems like -gate ("Emailgate", etc) to me, i.e. it seems like a suffix. (Do we have tests to distinguish suffixes like that from compounds, as with cycle?) - -sche (discuss) 02:00, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Those compounds, jetcycle and catcycle (even Batcycle) could as well be blends of X + motorcycle Leasnam (talk) 01:40, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Deleted - TheDaveRoss 16:31, 2 April 2020 (UTC)