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| Portmanteau - Wikipedia #portmanteau , /?p??rtmæn?to?/) or portmanteau word (from French porte-manteau) is a linguistic blend of words, in which parts of multiple words or their phonemes (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel. In linguistics, a portmanteau is a single morph that is analyzed as representing two (or more) underlying morphemes. &neo 2020-01-23 15:21:21 |