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2. Neologism - Wikipedia

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   Neologisms are often formed by combining existing words (see compound noun and adjective) or by giving words new and unique suffixes or prefixes. [9] Neologisms can also be formed by blending words, for example, "brunch" is a blend of the words "breakfast" and "lunch", or through abbreviation or acronym, by intentionally rhyming with existing words or simply through playing with sounds.

3. Nonce word - Wikipedia

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   pseudoword: a nonsense word that still follows the phonotactics of a particular language and is therefore pronounceable, feeling to native speakers like a possible word (for example, in English, blurk is a pseudoword, but bldzkg is a nonword); thus, pseudowords follow a language's phonetic rules but have no meaning [10]

4. Category:Word coinage - Wikipedia

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5. Blend word - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau [a] —is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together. [2] [3] [4] English examples include smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, [3] [5] and motel, from motor and hotel. [6] A blend is similar to a ...

6. Word formation - Wikipedia

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   the word televise is a back-formation of television; The process is motivated by analogy: edit is to editor as act is to actor. This process leads to a lot of denominal verbs. The productivity of back-formation is limited, with the most productive forms of back-formation being hypocoristics. [5]

7. Structured word inquiry - Wikipedia

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   A word matrix is a visual representation of the relationships between words that share common morphemes. It allows students to explore patterns of word formation and deepen their understanding of the morphological structure of related words. [10] [6] [11] A word matrix showing some of the members of the <sign> word family

8. From ‘Basic’ to ‘Boujee,’ Here Are 29 Gen Z Slang Terms To ...

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   Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).

9. Conversion (word formation) - Wikipedia

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   For example, the noun green in golf (referring to a putting-green) is derived ultimately from the adjective green. Conversions from adjectives to nouns and vice versa are both very common and unnotable in English; much more remarked upon is the creation of a verb by converting a noun or other word (for example, the adjective clean becomes the ...