English usually has preposition+verb or verb (pause) preposition. "uplift" and "lift up" so I would expect *"downput" or "put down" but "putdown" is an exception to the rule.
And I would expect *"undownputable" instead of the more common "unputdownable".
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Originally Posted by barryem
Language is always changing. In King James time when they translated the New Testament they used words like "thee" and "thine" because 200 years earlier those were common words. But in King James time they were already using "you" and "yours" out loud. They just hadn't changed the spelling yet. "Thee" was pronounced "you". Later the spelling also changed.
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"Thou" is singular, "you" is plural.
At the time, "you" was considered more polite, as in French, but "thou" was a more precise translation of the Greek, especially when they wanted to speak of G'd.