cranberry morpheme

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Definition von cranberry morpheme im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A bound morpheme within a complex word which is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to the present speakers of the language. May refer narrowly to morphemes which occur in a single word, or more broadly to fossilized morphemes generally

Relevante Übersetzungen

cranberry morphemes

plural form of cranberry morpheme

Silbentrennung

cran·ber·ry mor·pheme

Etymologie

() From the cran- of cranberry as an archetype. cran- is from Kraan (“crane”), but is now a bound morpheme, hence an example of a cranberry morpheme.