Word Formation in English. Less Common Processes  Coinage (& eponyms—word from person’s name ) kleenex, fridge, hoover  Blending brunch from breakfast.

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Word Formation in English

Less Common Processes  Coinage (& eponyms—word from person’s name ) kleenex, fridge, hoover  Blending brunch from breakfast + lunch  Clipping (& hypocorism—end with ‘y’) lunch from luncheon & telly from television  Acronyms AIDS, snafu

More Common Processes  Borrowings from other languages pajamas from Hindi; pizza from Italian  Compounding silverware or redwood  Backformation (shorter new word) write from writer; emote from emotion  Conversion (word unchanged) noun cream also comes to be verb cream

Derivation by affixes  By means of prefixes figure can become refigure or disfigure  By means of suffixes respect can become respected or respectful or respectfully  These can be used together brave can become unbravely  Rarely by means of infixes absobloominglutely or even, if you think of it as a single word, nofuckingway

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