cranberry morpheme
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
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.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA