n. (also overlapping morph) A single morph which represents two or more morphemes. An example is the morph -o in the Latin verb form amo ‘I love’: here am- is the verb root, and -o simultaneously expresses the categories first person,...

// n. A single morph which represents two or more morphemes. An example is the morph -o in the Latin verb form amo ‘I love’: here am- is the verb root, and -o simultaneously expresses the categories first person, singular, present, active,...

Term introduced by C.F.Hockett to denote phonomorphological units that blend several otherwise distinct morphemic units together, cf. Fr. au (=blend of à+le) which contains the meanings of ‘dative,’ ‘definite,’...

n. A less usual synonym for...

A portmanteau (IPA: /pɔrtˈmæntoʊ/), plural portmanteaux, is a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning. A folk usage of portmanteau refers to a word formed by combining both sounds and meanings...