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recursive compound word

noun

Etymology

From recursive + compound word (which itself, being a compound word, is autological), making the word recursive compound word autological too.

  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. Compound word composed of at least one other compound word.

    • The recursive compound word "chocolate teapot" is composed of "chocolate" and "teapot" which itself is also a compound word composed of "tea" and "pot".
    • A structure of recursive compound words has not been discussed by many researchers in the generative linguistics. In compounding, recursion can be defined that a compound noun freely becomes the base of another compound noun (Namiki 1988).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for recursive 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