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acronym A special type of shortening which takes the first sound from each of several words and makes a new word from those initial sounds.
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back-formation Creation of a new word by removal of a suffix.
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blending A 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.
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clipping A way of shortening words or phrases by clipping off some part of a word and throwing away the rest.
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coinage Creation of a new word witout basing it on some pre-existing word or part of a word.
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compound A word that consists of more than one root morpheme.
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conversion A word formation process in which a word is assigned to a new word class without any change in form.
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diatonic words A special case of conversion which preserves the sounds, but changes the stress.
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eponym A new word based on a name.
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initialism An abbreviation where each letter is pronounced individually.
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