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compound word

noun

Etymology

From compound + word.

  1. inherited from *werdʰh₁om✻ — “word”
  2. inherited from *wurdą✻ — “word”
  3. inherited from *word✻
  4. inherited from word
  5. inherited from word
  6. compounded as compound word — “compound + word”

Definitions

  1. A word composed of two or more stems.

    • A Compound Word, is that which is Compounded of two or more Words; as a Book-Seller, Compounded of Book and Seller; a Watch-man, of Watch and Man.
    • A word is a compound word when it is made up of two or more parts, each of which is a significant word by itself; as, apple-tree, tea-spoon, spend-thrift.
    • Thus it is found in English compound words, e.g. “elbow,” “rainbow,” “bow-net,” “bow-window,” “bow-knot,” “saddle-bow,” and by itself as the designation of a great variety of objects.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for compound word. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA