blend word

In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together.Garner's Modern American Usage
p. 644. English examples include '' smog'', coined by blending ''smoke'' and ''fog'', and ''motel'', from ''motor'' ('' motorist'') and ''hotel''.

A blend is similar to a contraction. On one hand, mainstream blends tend to be formed at a particular historical moment followed by a rapid rise in popularity. On the other hand, contractions are formed by the gradual drifting together of words over time due to the words commonly appearing together in sequence, such as ''do not'' naturally becoming ''don't'' (phonologically, becoming ). A blend also differs from a compound, which fully preserves the stems of the original words. The British lecturer Valerie Adams's 1973 ''Introduction to Modern English Word-Formation'' explains that "In words such as ''motel''..., ''hotel'' is represented by various shorter substitutes – ''otel''... – which I shall call splinters. Words containing splinters I shall call blends".Adams attributes the term ''splinter'' to J. M. Berman, "Contribution on blending," ''Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik'' 9 (1961), pp. 278–281. Thus, at least one of the parts of a blend, strictly speaking, is not a complete morpheme, but instead a mere splinter or leftover word fragment. For instance, ''starfish'' is a compound, not a blend, of ''star'' and ''fish'', as it includes both words in full. However, if it were called a "''stish''" or a "''starsh''", it would be a blend. Furthermore, when blends are formed by shortening established compounds or phrases, they can be considered clipped compounds, such as ''romcom'' for ''romantic comedy''.

Classification

Blends of two or more words may be classified from each of three viewpoints: morphotactic, morphonological, and morphosemantic.Elisa Mattiello, "Blends." Chap. 4 (pp. 111–140) of ''Extra-grammatical Morphology in English: Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena'' (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2013; ; ).

Morphotactic classification

Blends may be classified morphotactically into two kinds: ''total'' and ''partial''.

Total blends

In a total blend, each of the words creating the blend is reduced to a mere splinter. Some linguists limit blends to these (perhaps with additional conditions): for example, Ingo Plag considers "proper blends" to be total blends that semantically are coordinate, the remainder being "shortened compounds".

Commonly for English blends, the beginning of one word is followed by the end of another:
*''breakfast'' + ''lunch'brunch''Example provided by Elisa Mattiello's chapter "Blends" (of ''Extra-grammatical Morphology in English: Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena'', Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2013) of a blend of this kind.

Much less commonly in English, the beginning of one word may be followed by the beginning of another:
*''teleprinter'' + ''exchange'telex''
*''American'' + ''Indian'Amerind''
Some linguists do not regard beginning+beginning concatenations as blends, instead calling them complex clippings, clipping compounds or clipped compounds.

Unusually in English, the end of one word may be followed by the end of another:
*''Red Bull'' + ''margarita'bullgarita''
*''Hello Kitty'' + ''delicious'kittylicious''

A splinter of one word may replace part of another, as in two coined by Lewis Carroll in " Jabberwocky":
*''chuckle'' + ''snort'chortle''
*''slimy'' + ''lithe'slithy''
They are sometimes termed ''intercalative'' blends; these words are among the original "portmanteaus" for which this meaning of the word was created.Suzanne Kemmer, "Schemas and lexical blends." In Hubert C. Cuyckens et al., eds, ''Motivation in Language: From Case Grammar to Cognitive Linguistics: Studies in Honour of Günter Radden'' (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2003; , ).

Partial blends

In a partial blend, one entire word is concatenated with a splinter from another. Some linguists do not recognize these as blends.

An entire word may be followed by a splinter:
*''dumb'' + ''confound'dumbfound''
*''fan'' + ''magazine'fanzine''Example provided by Elisa Mattiello's chapter "Blends" (of ''Extra-grammatical Morphology in English: Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena'', Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2013) of a blend of this kind. (Etymologically, ''fan'' is a clipping of ''fanatic''; but it has since become lexicalized.)

A splinter may be followed by an entire word:
*''Brad'' + ''Angelina'Brangelina''
*''American'' + ''Indian'Amerindian''

An entire word may replace part of another:
*''adorable'' + ''dork'adorkable''
*''disgusting'' + ''gross'disgrossting''
These have also been called ''sandwich'' words, and classed among ''intercalative'' blends.

(When two words are combined in their entirety, the result is considered a compound word rather than a blend. For example, bagpipe is a compound, not a blend, of ''bag'' and ''pipe.'')

Morphological classification

Morphologically, blends fall into two kinds: ''overlapping'' and ''non-overlapping''.

Overlapping blends

Overlapping blends are those for which the ingredients' consonants, vowels or even syllables overlap to some extent. The overlap can be of different kinds. These are also called haplologic blends.

There may be an overlap that is both phonological and orthographic, but with no other shortening:
*''anecdote'' + ''dotage'anecdotage''
*''pal'' + ''alimony'palimony''

The overlap may be both phonological and orthographic, and with some additional shortening to at least one of the ingredients:
*''California'' + ''fornication'Californication''Elisa Mattiello, "Lexical index." Appendix (pp. 287–329) to ''Extra-grammatical Morphology in English: Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena'' (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2013; ; ).
*''picture'' + ''dictionary'pictionary''

Such an overlap may be discontinuous:
*''politician'' + ''pollution'pollutician''Example provided by Elisa Mattiello's chapter "Blends" (of ''Extra-grammatical Morphology in English: Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena'', Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2013) of a blend of this kind, slightly amended.
*''beef'' + ''buffalo'beefalo''
These are also termed imperfect blends.

It can occur with three components:
*''camisade'' + ''cannibalism'' + ''ballistics'camibalistics''Example provided by Mattiello of a blend of this kind. The word is found in ''Finnegans Wake''; Mattiello credits Almuth Grésillon, ''La règle et le monstre: Le mot-valise. Interrogations sur la langue, à partir d'un corpus de Heinrich Heine'' (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1984), 15, for bringing it to her attention.
*''meander'' + ''Neanderthal'' + ''tale'meandertale''

The phonological overlap need not also be orthographic:
*''back'' + ''acronym'backronym''
*''war'' + ''orgasm'wargasm''

If the phonological but non-orthographic overlap encompasses the whole of the shorter ingredient, as in
*''sin'' + ''cinema'sinema''
*''sham'' + ''champagne'shampagne''
then the effect depends on orthography alone. (They are also called orthographic blends.)

An orthographic overlap need not also be phonological:
*''smoke'' + ''fog'smog''
*''binary'' + ''digit'bit''

For some linguists, an overlap is a condition for a blend.

Non-overlapping blends

Non-overlapping blends (also called substitution blends) have no overlap, whether phonological or orthographic:
*''California'' + ''Mexico'Calexico''
*''beautiful'' + ''delicious'beaulicious''

Morphosemantic classification

Morphosemantically, blends fall into two kinds: ''attributive'' and ''coordinate''.

Attributive blends

Attributive blends (also called syntactic or telescope blends) are blends where one of the ingredients is the head and the other is attributive. A ''porta-light'' is a portable light, not a 'light-emitting' or light portability; in this instance, ''light'' is the head, while "porta-" is attributive. A ''snobject'' is a snobbery-satisfying object and not an objective or other kind of snob; object is the head.

As is also true for (conventional, non-blend) attributive compounds (among which ''bathroom'', for example, is a kind of room, not a kind of bath), the attributive blends of English are mostly head-final and mostly endocentric. As an example of an exocentric attributive blend, '' Fruitopia'' may metaphorically take the buyer to a fruity utopia (and not a utopian fruit); however, it is not a utopia but a drink.

Coordinate blends

Coordinate blends (also called associative or portmanteau blends) combine two words having equal status, and have two heads. Thus ''brunch'' is neither a breakfasty lunch nor a lunchtime breakfast but instead some hybrid of breakfast and lunch; '' Oxbridge'' is equally Oxford and Cambridge universities. This too parallels (conventional, non-blend) compounds: an ''actor–director'' is equally an actor and a director.

Two kinds of coordinate blends are particularly conspicuous: those that combine (near) synonyms:
*''gigantic'' + ''enormous'ginormous''
*''insinuation'' + ''innuendo'insinuendo''
and those that combine (near) opposites:
*''transmitter'' + ''receiver'transceiver''
*''friend'' + ''enemy'frenemy''

Blending of two roots

Blending can also apply to roots rather than words, for instance in Israeli Hebrew:
* ( 'hint') + ( 'light') ( 'traffic light')
* ( 'tower') + ( 'light') ( 'lighthouse')
* Mishnaic Hebrew: ( 'push') + Biblical Hebrew: ( 'dig') ( 'bulldozer')
* Israeli שלטוט ''shiltút'' 'zapping, surfing the channels, flipping through the channels' derives from
** (i) (Hebrew>) Israeli שלט ''shalát'' 'remote control', an ellipsis – like English ''remote'' (but using the noun instead) – of the (widely known) compound שלט רחוק ''shalát rakhók'' – cf. the Academy of the Hebrew Language's שלט רחק ''shalát rákhak''; and
** (ii) (Hebrew>) Israeli שטוט ''shitút'' 'wandering, vagrancy'. Israeli שלטוט ''shiltút'' was introduced by the Academy of the Hebrew Language in ..1996. Synchronically, it might appear to result from reduplication of the final consonant of ''shalát'' 'remote control'.
* Another example of blending which has also been explained as mere reduplication is Israeli גחלילית ''gakhlilít'' 'fire-fly, glow-fly, '' Lampyris'''. This coinage by Hayyim Nahman Bialik blends (Hebrew>) Israeli גחלת ''gakhélet'' 'burning coal' with (Hebrew>) Israeli לילה ''láyla'' 'night'. Compare this with the unblended חכלילית ''khakhlilít'' '(black) redstart, '' Phœnicurus (Ernest Klein explains ''gakhlilít''. Since he is attempting to provide etymology, his description might be misleading if one agrees that Hayyim Nahman Bialik had blending in mind."

"There are two possible etymological analyses for Israeli Hebrew כספר ''kaspár'' 'bank clerk, teller'. The first is that it consists of (Hebrew>) Israeli כסף ''késef'' 'money' and the ( International/Hebrew>) Israeli agentive suffix ר- ''-ár''. The second is that it is a quasi-portmanteau word which blends כסף ''késef'' 'money' and (Hebrew>) Israeli ספר √spr 'count'. Israeli Hebrew כספר ''kaspár'' started as a brand name but soon entered the common language. Even if the second analysis is the correct one, the final syllable ר- ''-ár'' apparently facilitated nativization since it was regarded as the Hebrew suffix ר- ''-år'' (probably of Persian pedigree), which usually refers to craftsmen and professionals, for instance as in Mendele Mocher Sforim's coinage סמרטוטר ''smartutár'' 'rag-dealer'."

Lexical selection

Blending may occur with an error in ''lexical selection'', the process by which a speaker uses his semantic knowledge to choose words. Lewis Carroll's explanation, which gave rise to the use of 'portmanteau' for such combinations, was:

Humpty Dumpty's theory, of two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau, seems to me the right explanation for all. For instance, take the two words "fuming" and "furious." Make up your mind that you will say both words ... you will say "frumious."

The errors are based on similarity of meanings, rather than phonological similarities, and the morphemes or phonemes stay in the same position within the syllable.

Use

Some languages, like Japanese, encourage the shortening and merging of borrowed foreign words (as in gairaigo), because they are long or difficult to pronounce in the target language. For example, ''karaoke'', a combination of the Japanese word ''kara'' (meaning ''empty'') and the clipped form ''oke'' of the English loanword "orchestra" (J. ''ōkesutora'', ), is a Japanese blend that has entered the English language. The Vietnamese language also encourages blend words formed from Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary. For example, the term Việt Cộng is derived from the first syllables of "Việt Nam" (Vietnam) and "Cộng sản" (communist).

Many corporate brand names, trademarks, and initiatives, and names of corporations and organizations themselves, are blends. For example, Wiktionary, one of Wikipedia's sister projects, is a blend of '' wiki'' and ''dictionary''.

Origin of the term ''portmanteau''

The word ''portmanteau'' was introduced in this sense by Lewis Carroll in the book '' Through the Looking-Glass'' (1871), where Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of unusual words used in " Jabberwocky".Fromkin, V., Rodman, R., and Hyams, N. (2007) ''An Introduction to Language'', Eighth Edition. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth. . ''Slithy'' means "slimy and lithe" and ''mimsy'' means "miserable and flimsy". Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the practice of combining words in various ways, comparing it to the then-common type of luggage, which opens into two equal parts:

In his introduction to his 1876 poem '' The Hunting of the Snark'', Carroll again uses ''portmanteau'' when discussing lexical selection:

In then-contemporary English, a portmanteau was a suitcase that opened into two equal sections. According to the OED Online, a portmanteau is a "case or bag for carrying clothing and other belongings when travelling; (originally) one of a form suitable for carrying on horseback; (now esp.) one in the form of a stiff leather case hinged at the back to open into two equal parts". According to '' The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'' (''AHD''), the etymology of the word is the French , from , "to carry", and , "cloak" (from Old French , from Latin ). According to the OED Online, the etymology of the word is the "officer who carries the mantle of a person in a high position (1507 in Middle French), case or bag for carrying clothing (1547), clothes rack (1640)". In modern French, a is a clothes valet, a coat-tree or similar article of furniture for hanging up jackets, hats, umbrellas and the like.

An occasional synonym for "portmanteau word" is ''frankenword'', an autological word exemplifying the phenomenon it describes, blending "Frankenstein" and "word".

Examples in English

Many neologisms are examples of blends, but many blends have become part of the lexicon. In '' Punch'' in 1896, the word brunch (breakfast + lunch) was introduced as a "portmanteau word". In 1964, the newly independent African republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar chose the portmanteau word Tanzania as its name. Similarly Eurasia is a portmanteau of Europe and Asia.

Some city names are portmanteaus of the border regions they straddle: Texarkana spreads across the Texas-Arkansas-Louisiana border, while Calexico and Mexicali are respectively the American and Mexican sides of a single conurbation. A scientific example is a '' liger'', which is a cross between a male lion and a female tiger (a '' tigon'' is a similar cross in which the male is a tiger). A more modern blend of ‘Cat’ and ‘Rabbit’ was founded 2023 on X (formerly known as Twitter) to describe a circulating image of a mix between the two, producing the word ‘ Cabbit’.

Many company or brand names are portmanteaus, including Microsoft, a portmanteau of '' microcomputer'' and ''software''; the cheese '' Cambozola'' combines a similar rind to '' Camembert'' with the same mould used to make '' Gorgonzola''; passenger rail company ''Amtrak'', a portmanteau of '' America'' and '' track''; ''Velcro'', a portmanteau of the French (velvet) and (hook); '' Verizon'', a portmanteau of (Latin for truth) and ''horizon''; Viacom, a portmanteau of Video and Audio communications, and ComEd (a Chicago-area electric utility company), a portmanteau of ''Commonwealth'' and '' Edison''.

''Jeoportmanteau!'' is a recurring category on the American television quiz show '' Jeopardy!'' The category's name is itself a portmanteau of the words ''Jeopardy'' and ''portmanteau''. Responses in the category are portmanteaus constructed by fitting two words together.

Portmanteau words may be produced by joining proper nouns with common nouns, such as " gerrymandering", which refers to the scheme of Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry for politically contrived redistricting; the perimeter of one of the districts thereby created resembled a very curvy salamander in outline. The term gerrymander has itself contributed to portmanteau terms bjelkemander and playmander.

Oxbridge is a common portmanteau for the UK's two oldest universities, those of Oxford and Cambridge. In 2016, Britain's planned exit from the European Union became known as " Brexit".

The word ''refudiate'' was famously used by Sarah Palin when she misspoke, conflating the words ''refute'' and ''repudiate''. Though the word was a gaffe, it was recognized as the ''New Oxford American Dictionary''s "Word of the Year" in 2010.

The business lexicon includes words like " advertainment" (advertising as entertainment), " advertorial" (a blurred distinction between advertising and editorial), " infotainment" (information about entertainment or itself intended to entertain by its manner of presentation), and " infomercial" (informational commercial).

Company and product names may also use portmanteau words: examples include ''Timex'' (a portmanteau of ''Time'' eferring to Time magazine">Time_magazine.html" ;"title="eferring to Time magazine">eferring to Time magazineand Kleenex), Renault's ''Renault Twingo, Twingo'' (a combination of ''twist'', ''swing'' and ''tango''), and Garmin (portmanteau of company founders' first names Gary Burrell and Min Kao). " Desilu Productions" was a Los Angeles–based company jointly owned by actor couple Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Miramax is the combination of the first names of the parents of the Weinstein brothers.

Name-meshing

Two proper names can also be used in creating a portmanteau word in reference to the partnership between people, especially in cases where both persons are well-known, or sometimes to produce epithets such as "Billary" (referring to former United States president Bill Clinton and his wife, former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton). In this example of recent American political history, the purpose for blending is not so much to combine the meanings of the source words but "to suggest a resemblance of one named person to the other"; the effect is often derogatory, as linguist Benjamin Zimmer states. For instance, Putler is used by critics of Vladimir Putin, merging his name with Adolf Hitler. By contrast, the public, including the media, use portmanteaus to refer to their favorite pairings as a way to "...giv people an essence of who they are within the same name." This is particularly seen in cases of fictional and real-life " supercouples". An early known example, Bennifer, referred to film stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Other examples include Brangelina ( Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) and TomKat ( Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes). On Wednesday, 28 June 2017, ''The New York Times'' crossword included the quip, "How I wish Natalie Portman dated Jacques Cousteau, so I could call them 'Portmanteau.

Holidays are another example, as in Thanksgivukkah, a portmanteau neologism given to the convergence of the American holiday of Thanksgiving and the first day of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah on Thursday, 28 November 2013. Chrismukkah is another pop-culture portmanteau neologism popularized by the TV drama '' The O.C.'', a merging of the holidays of Christianity's Christmas and Judaism's Hanukkah.

In the Disney film '' Big Hero 6'', the film is situated in a fictitious city called "San Fransokyo", which is a portmanteau of two real locations, San Francisco and Tokyo.

Other languages

Modern Hebrew

Modern Hebrew abounds with blending. Along with CD, or simply (), Hebrew has the blend (), which consists of ( 'phonograph record') and ( 'light'). Other blends in Hebrew include the following:
* ( 'smog'), from ( 'fog') and ( 'soot')
* ( 'pedestrian-only street'), from ( 'sidewalk') and ( 'street')
* ( 'musical'), from ( 'theatre play') and ( 'singing erund)
* ( 'lighthouse'), from ( 'tower') and ( 'light')
* ( 'rhinoceros'), from ( 'horn') and ( 'nose')
* ( 'traffic light'), from ( 'indication') and ( 'light')
* ( 'thong bikini'), from ( 'string') and ( 'bikini')

Sometimes the root of the second word is truncated, giving rise to a blend that resembles an acrostic:
* ( 'orange ruit), from ( 'apple') and ( 'gold')
* ( 'potato'), from ( 'apple') and ( 'soil, earth'), but the full ( 'apple of the soil, apple of the earth') is more common

Irish

A few portmanteaus are in use in modern Irish, for example:
* Brexit is referred to as (from 'Britain' and 'leave') or (from 'England' and 'out')
* The resignation of Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) Frances Fitzgerald was referred to as (from 'goodbye' and )
* , an Irish-language preschool (from 'infants' and 'band')
* The Irish translation of '' A Game of Thrones'' refers to Winterfell castle as (from 'winter' and 'exposed to winds')
* (from English ''jail'' and 'Irish-speaking region'): the community of Irish-speaking republican prisoners.

Icelandic

There is a tradition of linguistic purism in Icelandic, and neologisms are frequently created from pre-existing words. For example, 'computer' is a portmanteau of 'digit, number' and 'oracle, seeress'.

Indonesian

In Indonesian, portmanteaus and acronyms are very common in both formal and informal usage.

A common use of a portmanteau in the Indonesian language is to refer to locations and areas of the country. For example, Jabodetabek is a portmanteau that refers to the Jakarta metropolitan area or Greater Jakarta, which includes the regions of Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, Bekasi).

Malaysian

In the Malaysian national language of Bahasa Melayu, the word was constructed out of three Malay words for evil (), stupid () and arrogant () to be used on the worst kinds of community and religious leaders who mislead naive, submissive and powerless folk under their thrall.

Japanese

A very common type of portmanteau in Japanese forms one word from the beginnings of two others (that is, from two back-clippings). The portion of each input word retained is usually two morae, which is tantamount to one kanji in most words written in kanji.

The inputs to the process can be native words, Sino-Japanese words, gairaigo (later borrowings), or combinations thereof. A Sino-Japanese example is the name for the University of Tokyo, in full . With borrowings, typical results are words such as , meaning personal computer (PC), which despite being formed of English elements does not exist in English; it is a uniquely Japanese contraction of the English . Another example, , is a contracted form of the English words and . A famous example of a blend with mixed sources is , blending the Japanese word for and the Greek word . The Japanese fad of egg-shaped keychain pet toys from the 1990s, ''Tamagotchi'', is a portmanteau combining the two Japanese words , and . The portmanteau can also be seen as a combination of , and .

Some titles also are portmanteaus, such as '' Hetalia'' (). It came from (, 'idiot') and (, 'Italy'). Another example is '' Servamp'', which came from the English words and .

Portuguese

In Brazilian Portuguese, portmanteaus are usually slang, including:
* , from 'female singer' and 'actress', which defines women that both sing and act.
* , from 'annoy' and 'teenager', which is a pejorative term for teenagers.
* , from 'neck' and 'slap', which defines a slap on the back of the neck.

In European Portuguese, portmanteaus are also used. Some of them include:

* 'mobile phone' comes from 'telephone' and 'mobile'.
* 'singer-songwriter' comes from 'singer' and 'songwriter'.

Spanish

Although traditionally uncommon in Spanish, portmanteaus are increasingly finding their way into the language, mainly for marketing and commercial purposes. Examples in Mexican Spanish include from combining 'coffee shop' and 'bookstore', or ' telethon' from combining and . Portmanteaus are also frequently used to make commercial brands, such as "chocolleta" from "chocolate" + "galleta". They are also often used to create business company names, especially for small, family-owned businesses, where owners' names are combined to create a unique name (such as Rocar, from "Roberto" + "Carlos", or Mafer, from "María" + "Fernanda"). These usages help to create distinguishable trademarks. It is a common occurrence for people with two names to combine them into a single nickname, like Juanca for Juan Carlos, Or Marilú for María de Lourdes.

Other examples:
* 'singer-songwriter', from 'singer' and 'songwriter'.
* and , two neologisms that are blends of 'mechanical' with 'electronics', and 'office' with ' informatics' respectively.
* , interlanguage that combines words from both Spanish () and English.
* , blend of 'subway' and .
* , blend of 'car' and 'road, tracks'.
* Company names and brands with portmanteaus are common in Spanish. Some examples of Spanish portmanteaus for Mexican companies include: The Mexican flag carrier Aeroméxico, (Aerovías de México), Banorte (Bank and North), Cemex (Cement and Mexico), Jumex (Jugos Mexicanos or Mexican Juice), Mabe (from founders Egon MAbardi and Francisco BErrondo), Pemex (Petróleos Mexicanos or Mexican Oil), Softtek (portmanteau and stylization of Software and technology), and Telmex (Teléfonos de Mexico). Gamesa (Galletera Mexicana, S.A. or Mexican Biscuit Company, Inc.) and Famsa (fabricantes Muebleros, S.A.) are examples of portmanteaus of four words, including the "S.A." (Sociedad Anónima).
* Many more portmanteaus in Spanish come from Anglicisms, which are words borrowed from English, like , , , , , and

A somewhat popular example in Spain is the word , a portmanteau of 'cockerel and elephant'. It was the prize on the Spanish version of the children TV show ''Child's Play'' () that ran on the public television channel of (TVE) from 1988 to 1992.

Portmanteau morph

In linguistics, a blend is an amalgamation or fusion of independent lexemes, while a ''portmanteau'' or ''portmanteau morph'' is a single morph that is analyzed as representing two (or more) underlying morphemes. For example, in the Latin word , the ending is a portmanteau morph because it is an unanalysable combination of two morphemes: a morpheme for the singular number and one for the genitive case. In English, two separate morphs are used: ''of an animal''. Other examples include and .

See also

* Abbreviation
* Acronym and initialism
* Clipping (morphology)
* Conceptual blending
* Amalgamation (names)
* Hybrid word
* List of geographic portmanteaus
* List of portmanteaus
* Phonestheme
* Phono-semantic matching
* Portmanteau sentence
* Syllabic abbreviation
* Wiktionary category:English blends

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