Portmanteau

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Linguistics

In linguistics, the words that are popularly called portmanteaux are labeled blends. The term portmanteau is used in a different, yet still not clearly defined sense, to refer either to a portmanteau morpheme (a morpheme that fuses two grammatical categories; see Fusional language), or a portmanteau word, a word that fuses two function words. The latter use overlaps a bit with the folk term contraction, but linguists tend to avoid using the latter.

Related Topics:
Morpheme - Fusional language - Contraction

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