top | item 39149319 (no title) graywh | 2 years ago in English, we refer to smashed-together word(s) as "portmanteau", a French word that is a portmanteau itself discuss order hn newest NoZebra120vClip|2 years ago The sort of compound words which we're discussing appear by a process of synthesis:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_languageSee also: agglutination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgglutinationA 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_wordAnd let's not forget xkcd's coinage of the malamanteau:https://xkcd.com/739/
NoZebra120vClip|2 years ago The sort of compound words which we're discussing appear by a process of synthesis:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_languageSee also: agglutination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgglutinationA 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_wordAnd let's not forget xkcd's coinage of the malamanteau:https://xkcd.com/739/
NoZebra120vClip|2 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language
See also: 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
And let's not forget xkcd's coinage of the malamanteau:
https://xkcd.com/739/