word strings

These are the type of random thoughts that go through my head when I would otherwise claim to be thinking of nothing:

Pneumonic, mnemonic, demonic, economic, gnomic.

Conflate, confabulate, concatenate, admix

Coruscate, execrate, excrescence, ophthalmic

Flugelhorn, bugler, aglet

Carbuncular, avuncular, ovipositor, disquisite, perquisite

Berber

And then I start thinking about those unanswerable questions. Such as, if you can "add something to the mix" and so create an admixture, why is admix not an accepted verb (it seems to be an obscure Middle English back formation)? If you can have a carbuncle, can you have an avuncle? If an eaglet is a little eagle what is an aglet a little of? Or a sublet for that matter? Is there any relation between the words gnomon and gnome? Why do we have the words inquisition, perquisite, requisite, prerequisite, but not quisite? Since the s in those words is pronounced as a z and the root is the same as the word question, why is the origin of the word quiz unknown?

Obviously, I can entertain myself for hours this way.

~A