Portmanteau | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau


00:00:50 1 Origin
00:03:03 2 Examples in English
00:06:42 2.1 Name-meshing
00:08:49 3 Other languages
00:08:58 3.1 Arabic
00:10:54 3.2 Bulgarian
00:11:58 3.3 Filipino
00:13:40 3.4 French
00:14:37 3.5 Galician
00:15:24 3.6 German
00:16:22 3.7 Modern Hebrew
00:17:06 3.8 Irish
00:18:14 3.9 Portuguese
00:19:10 3.10 Hindi
00:19:59 3.11 Hungarian
00:20:34 3.12 Icelandic
00:21:09 3.13 Indonesian
00:21:33 3.14 Japanese
00:23:41 3.15 Spanish
00:23:44 3.16 Tibetan
00:25:26 4 Word/morph (linguistics)
00:26:56 5 See also
00:27:51 6 Notes
00:28:51 7 References



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A portmanteau ( (listen), ) or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words, in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word,
as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, , motel, from motor and hotel, or Pegahorn, from Pegasus and Unicorn. In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph that represents two or more morphemes.The definition overlaps with the grammatical term contraction, but contractions are formed from words that would otherwise appear together in sequence, such as do and not to make don't, whereas a portmanteau word is formed by combining two or more existing words that all relate to a singular concept. A portmanteau also differs from a compound, which does not involve the truncation of parts of the stems of the blended words. For instance, starfish is a compound, not a portmanteau, of star and fish, as it includes both words in full.