cranberry morpheme

noun

Etymology

From the cran- of cranberry as an archetype. Cran- is from Low German Kraan (“crane”), but is now a bound morpheme, hence an example of a cranberry morpheme.

  1. derived from Kraan — “crane

Definitions

  1. A bound morpheme within a complex word that is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to…

    A bound morpheme within a complex word that is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to the present speakers of the language.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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