acronymA special type of shortening which takes the first sound from each of several words and makes a new word from those initial sounds. |
back-formationCreation of a new word by removal of a suffix. |
blendingA word formation process in which parts of two familiar words are yoked together (usually the first part of one word and the second part of the other) to produce a word which combines the meanings and sound of the old ones. |
clippingA way of shortening words or phrases by clipping off some part of a word and throwing away the rest. |
coinageCreation of a new word witout basing it on some pre-existing word or part of a word. |
compoundA word that consists of more than one root morpheme. |
conversionA word formation process in which a word is assigned to a new word class without any change in form. |
diatonic wordsA special case of conversion which preserves the sounds, but changes the stress. |
eponymA new word based on a name. |
initialismAn abbreviation where each letter is pronounced individually. |