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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by Someone on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @02:01AM (#32908193)
It does. Combining Latin and Greek roots is done fairly frequently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_word mentions automobile, chloroform, hexadecimal, micro-instruction, petroleum, television and a few others.

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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:31PM (#32919946)
Citing wikipedia (“wiki” is a Hawaiian-derived root, and “-pedia” a Greek-derived suffix) is particularly appropriate here.
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