fractomorpheme
English
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Etymology
editBorrowed from French fractomorphème, itself coined by French linguist Jean Tournier. By surface analysis, fracto- + morpheme.
Noun
editfractomorpheme (plural fractomorphemes)
- (linguistics) A productive morpheme (one which readily forms new words) which originates as a shortened form of another word.
- 2018, Michael Dow, “A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends”, in Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association[1], Ottawa: Canadian Linguistic Association, archived from the original on 2024-01-17, page 13: