... of fresh rain in a forest in the fall Certainly a unified concept, but we would not consider the smell of fresh rain in a forest in the fall a word In fact, English simply has no single word ... expressing subjunctive infinitive or imperative, respectively This brings us to the last possible interpretation, namely that (6) may refer to the linking verb BE in general, as we would find it in ... meaning in, into’ we would predict that infer would mean ‘carry into’, which is not even close to the real meaning of infer The meaning of con- in confer is impossible to discern, but again Latin...