Timeline for Is there a term specifically applying to a three-word portmanteau?
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| Apr 27, 2023 at 16:48 | answer | added | Friedrich Will | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 20, 2017 at 3:25 | comment | added | JMP | managed 'polymanteau' | |
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| Apr 11, 2017 at 20:20 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | For an interesting though rather fragmentary discussion of whether the word Delmarva (from Delaware-Maryland-Virginia) in the place name Delmarva Peninsula is a blend, a portmanteau, a syllabic abbreviation, a clipping compound, or an acronym, see this Wikipedia page. | |
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| Apr 7, 2017 at 23:14 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | Similarly, if you cross-bred a half-Labrador-retriever/half-poodle with a half-chow/half-chihuahua, you would presumably get a litter of Labradoodlechowahuas. It's still a portmanteau, albeit it an overstuffed one. | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 23:03 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003) confirms the definition that Josh cites: "portmanteau n (1579) ... 2 : a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct words (as smog from smoke and fog)." The correct term is indeed portmanteau. An example of a portmanteau word drawn from three base words is Komsomol, the Soviet youth organization, whose source words (in Russian) are Kommunistichesky (communist), Soyuz (alliance), and Molodyozhi (young people). | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 14:35 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | related: 1. What do you call the process of combining two words to create a new one? 2. Are there rules for constructing portmanteaux? 3. What to call expressions like “Google-Fu” | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 6:18 | comment | added | user66974 | A portmanteau that refers to three words is called: portmanteau: In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph that represents two or more morphemes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau | |
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| Apr 4, 2017 at 22:02 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @PeterShor - No, that's two sesquipedalian words. | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 10:14 | comment | added | Spagirl | Isn't obstaculum a core verb, modified by a prefix and turned into a noun by the addition of a suffix rather than a word made up of three individual words? Do 'ob-' and '-culum' really count as words? I appreciate you might still want to describe the fact that 'obstaculum' has three parts, but can't you just say it 'has three parts' or hass a 'three-part construction'? | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 3:54 | comment | added | Peter Shor | If you need a name for a three-word merger, how about tripodmanteau? | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 0:29 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Yeah, the correct term is threewordportmanteau. | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 23:56 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Dictionary.com gives portmanteau ... N ... 2. Also called portmanteau word. Linguistics. blend (def 10). and blend ... N ... 10. Linguistics. a word made by putting together parts of other words ... | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 23:50 | comment | added | Peter Shor | The book was translated from the German, where the Kofferwort was satanarchäolügenialkohöllisch. | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 23:46 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Wikipedia describes the word Satanarchaeolidealcohellish (from a children's book by Michael Ende) as a portmanteau of the words Satan, anarchy, archaeology, lie, ideal, alcohol and hellish. So presumably there's no better word for three-, four- or seven-word mergers in English. | |
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