Portmanteau word

A portmanteau word () is made of other words, or parts of words. It comes from putting  two (or more) other words together, like motel, from motor and hotel.

 Origin 
Portmanteau originally meant a type of suitcase with two separate parts for storage.Oxford dictionaries. 
The first use as a word combination appeared in Lewis Carroll's book Through the Looking-Glass. There Humpty Dumpty explains that some of the unusual words in Jabberwocky are other words packed together into one word, as two parts of a portmanteau suitcase are packed together.

 Examples 
Portmanteau itself is an example, combining the French words for carry (porter) and coat (manteau) into a coat carrier. Wikipedia is a portmanteau of wiki (Hawaiian for fast) and encyclopedia.

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