cranberry word
nounEtymology
From or by analogy with cranberry morpheme.
Definitions
A word used only in certain fixed phrases or idioms, with a meaning that is otherwise…
A word used only in certain fixed phrases or idioms, with a meaning that is otherwise opaque; often a fossil word.
- Here it will not do to say that the non-head is related to raiser by pragmatic inferences, since such compounds are possible even for speakers for whom hackle is a cranberry word not usable outside the idiom chunk.
- The cranberry word in this idiom is kelaħ, which has no known literal meaning.
A word that contains a cranberry morpheme.
- (13d) exhibits the same suffix as the two adjectives that precede it in the list, though the root is otherwise unattested; it is a Greek “cranberry word.”
- However, such problem cases also appear in morphology, in so-called cranberry''' words, where the morphemic status of cran- is far from settled.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cranberry 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