portmanteau word

Significado (Inglés)

A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the other, the adjoining parts often having a common vowel.

Sinónimos

portmanteau

blend

pidgin

hybrid word

Traducións

mot-valise

Kofferwort

mengwoord

palavra entrecruzada

palavra-valise

mot creuat

paraula composta

كلمَة منحوتَة من كلمتين

zusammengesetztes Wort

Tok Pisin

Amalgamierung

Pidgin-Sprachen

Pidginsprache

Mischsprache

acrònim

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

First used by Lewis Carroll in 1871, based on the concept of two words packed together, like a portmanteau (“a travelling case having two halves joined by a hinge”).