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in English, we refer to smashed-together word(s) as "portmanteau", a French word that is a portmanteau itself
by graywh 3y ago
in English, we refer to smashed-together word(s) as "portmanteau", a French word that is a portmanteau itself
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoThe sort of compound words which we're discussing appear by a process of synthesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language See also: agglutination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutination A portmanteau is different, where parts of several words are blended, rather than retaining the substance of each word in a compound. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_word And let's not forget xkcd's coinage of the malamanteau: https://xkcd.com/739/ https://xkcd.com/739/