cranberry morpheme
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From the cran- of cranberry as an archetype. Cran- is from Low German Kraan (“crane”), but is now a bound morpheme, hence an example of a cranberry morpheme.
NounEdit
cranberry morpheme (plural cranberry morphemes)
- (linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme within a complex word that is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to the present speakers of the language.
Usage notesEdit
- The term may refer narrowly to morphemes which occur in a single word, or more broadly to fossilized morphemes generally.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
bound morpheme with opaque meaning
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