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Linguipedia: New page: In morphology, the term '''blend''' is used for a lexeme that was deliberately created out of two (or more) base words by (often irregularly) deleting parts of the bases. :::*''"A ble...

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New page: In morphology, the term '''blend''' is used for a lexeme that was deliberately created out of two (or more) base words by (often irregularly) deleting parts of the bases. :::*''"A ble...

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In morphology, the term '''blend''' is used for a lexeme that was deliberately created out of two (or more) [[base]] words by (often irregularly) deleting parts of the bases.

:::*''"A blend is here defined as a deliberate creation of a new word out of two (or rarely more) previously existing ones in a way which differs from the rules or pattterns of regular compounding."'' (Ronneberger-Sibold 2006:157)

===Term properties===
The [[word-creation technique]] by which blends arise is called '''blending'''.

===Examples===
*English ''guesstimate'' from ''estimate + guess'', ''Spanglish'' from ''Spanish + English''
*German ''Bistrothek'' from ''Bistro + Diskothek''

===Synonyms===
*[[blend-word]]
*[[amalgam]]
*[[portmanteau word]]

===Origin===
According to the OED, the word ''blend'' goes back to the early 20th century.
:::*''"Blend-words, amalgams, or fusions may be defined as two or more words, often of cognate sense, telescoped as it were into one."'' (Pound 1914:1)
:::*"Words of the type of ''electrocute''..are often called ''portmanteau words'', or better, ''blends''." (Baugh 1935:377)

===References===
*Baugh, A.C. 1935. ''Hist. Eng. Lang.'' x. (from OED s.v. blend)
*[[Cannon, Garland]]. 1986. Blends in English word-formation. ''Linguistics'' 24:725-753.
*Pound, L. 1914. ''Blends: Their Relation to Eng. Word Formation i.'' (from OED s.v. blend)
*[[Ronneberger-Sibold, Elke]]. 2006. Lexical blends: Functionally tuning the transparency of complex words. ''Folia Linguistica'' 40.1-2:155-181.

===Other languages===
German [[Wortverschmelzung]]

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 ===Examples===
-*English ''guesstimate'' from ''estimate + guess'', ''Spanglish'' from ''Spanish + English''
+*English ''guesstimate'' from ''estimate + guess'', ''Spanglish'' from ''Spanish + English'', ''smog'' from ''Smoke + Fog''
 *German ''Bistrothek'' from ''Bistro + Diskothek''