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-man
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The suffix -man, a grammaticalization of the noun man man and actually a suffixoid, can quite sporadically take a verbal base. The cases that come to mind are keapman salesman, which comes from keapje to buy, and spylman minstrel, which is derived from spylje to play.

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The suffix may also take other base categories; nouns are the most important ones. For more information, see the topic on -man with noun as base.

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