"same person”. Frenemy ""Frenemy"" (less commonly spelled ""frienemy"") is an oxymoron and a portmanteau of ""friend"" and ""enemy"" that refers to ""a person with whom one is friendly, despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry"" or ""a person who combines the characteristics of a friend and an enemy"". The term is used to describe personal, geopolitical and commercial relationships both among individuals and groups or institutions. The word has appeared in print as early as 1953 in an article titled ""Howz about calling the Russians our Frienemies?"" by the American gossip columnist Walter Winchel in the ""Nevada State Journal"". A ""Businessweek"""
"are blends. For example, Wiktionary, one of Wikipedia's sister projects, is a blend of ""wiki"" and ""dictionary"". Blend word In linguistics, a blend word or a blend is a word formed from parts of two or more other words. These parts are sometimes, but not always, morphemes. Blends abridge then combine lexemes to form a new word. Defining a true blend is complicated by the difficulty of determining which parts of the new word are ""recoverable"" (have roots which can be distinguished). Blends can be divided into three groups: Most blends are formed by one of the following methods: A"
"Blend word In linguistics, a blend word or a blend is a word formed from parts of two or more other words. These parts are sometimes, but not always, morphemes. Blends abridge then combine lexemes to form a new word. Defining a true blend is complicated by the difficulty of determining which parts of the new word are ""recoverable"" (have roots which can be distinguished). Blends can be divided into three groups: Most blends are formed by one of the following methods: A blended word may undergo further modification in form or meaning over time, and the meanings of its"
"Portmanteau A portmanteau (, ) or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words, in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in ""smog"", coined by blending ""smoke"" and ""fog"", or ""motel"", from ""motor"" and ""hotel"". In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph that represents two or more morphemes. The definition overlaps with the grammatical term ""contraction"", but contractions are formed from words that would otherwise appear together in sequence, such as ""do"" and ""not"" to make ""don't"", whereas a portmanteau word is formed by combining two or"
"Amalgamation (names) An amalgamated name is a name that is formed by combining several previously existing names. These may take the form of an acronym (where only one letter of each name is taken) or a blend (where a large part of each name is taken, such as the first syllable). Amalgamated names are most commonly used for amalgamated businesses, characters and places. Newly arising partnerships may also choose to name themselves by amalgamating their names. Amalgamation is also a term used in linguistics when a compound contains roots from several languages, without it being part of a blended language."
"For example, a word with an English and a Spanish root would not be an amalgam, if part of Spanglish, while an English word with a Greek and a Latin root would. This is also known as a hybrid word. Amalgamation (names) An amalgamated name is a name that is formed by combining several previously existing names. These may take the form of an acronym (where only one letter of each name is taken) or a blend (where a large part of each name is taken, such as the first syllable). Amalgamated names are most commonly used for amalgamated businesses,"
"Poglish Poglish, Polglish or Ponglish (in Polish, often rendered ""Polglisz""), is a linguistic blend of two words, or a portmanteau in Polish and English, designates the product of macaronically mixing Polish- and English-language elements (morphemes, words, grammatical structures, syntactic elements, idioms, etc.) within a single speech production, or the use of ""false friends"" and of cognate words in senses that have diverged from those of the common etymological root. Such combining or confusion of Polish and English elements, when it occurs within a single word, term or phrase (e.g., in a hybrid word), may, inadvertently or deliberately, produce a neologism."
"term used in linguistics to describe when two words in different languages are similar in form and pronunciation, but have different roots and possibly different meanings. ""Pendiente"" is a contemporary dance duet inspired on images, atmospheres and situations of a novel by Gabriel García Marquez, ""Chronicle of a Death Foretold"". This is a non-narrative choreography, but addresses recurring themes in the novel such as a prohibited love, violence, revenge and disdain. García Marquez' work, an essential part of Latin American cultural identity, serves as a meeting point for the three creators of this piece. It is an encounter of two"
"were believed by many in American society to mean ""the enemy,"" and the meaning of the two terms could be extremely pejorative, depending on the political context, mood, or state of fear and agitation within the society at the time. Generally, the counterpoint to an enemy is a friend or ally, although the term frenemy has been coined to capture the sense of a relationship wherein the parties are allied for some purposes and at odds with one another for other purposes. The existence or perceived existence of a collective enemy tends to increase the cohesiveness of the group. However,"
"clasp bound her purple cloak"" (Virgil, Aeneid 4.139). Usually, synchysis is formed through the ""adjective A - adjective B - noun A - noun B"" structure, but it can also exist as ""adjective-noun-adjective-noun"". Today, it is mainly found in poetry, where poets use it to maintain metre or rhyme. Synchysis is derived from the Latin and Ancient Greek word σύγχυσις or ""synchysis"", meaning “a mixing”. Catullus notably made use of synchysis in his poetry. Catullus 75 has this line: Taking ""mea"" with ""Lesbia"" this line reads: The correct way to translate the line, however, is to take it with the"
"Fusion (phonetics) In phonetics and historical linguistics, fusion, or coalescence, is the merger of features from two or more segments into a single segment. A common form of fusion is found in the development of nasal vowels, which frequently become phonemic when final nasal consonants are lost from a language. This occurred in French and Portuguese. Compare the French words ""un vin blanc"" ""a white wine"" with their English cognates, ""one, wine, blank,"" which retain the n's. Another example is the development of Greek ""bous"" ""cow"" from Indo-European ""*gʷous."" Although ""*gʷ"" was already a single consonant, , it had two"
"Hybrid word A hybrid word or hybridism is a word that etymologically derives from at least two languages. The most common form of hybrid word in English combines Latin and Greek parts. Since many prefixes and suffixes in English are of Latin or Greek etymology, it is straightforward to add a prefix or suffix from one language to an English word that comes from a different language, thus creating a hybrid word. Modern Hebrew abounds with non-Semitic derivational affixes, which are applied to words of both Semitic and non-Semitic descent. The following hybrid words consist of a Hebrew-descent word and"
"Hybrid word A hybrid word or hybridism is a word that etymologically derives from at least two languages. The most common form of hybrid word in English combines Latin and Greek parts. Since many prefixes and suffixes in English are of Latin or Greek etymology, it is straightforward to add a prefix or suffix from one language to an English word that comes from a different language, thus creating a hybrid word. Modern Hebrew abounds with non-Semitic derivational affixes, which are applied to words of both Semitic and non-Semitic descent. The following hybrid words consist of a Hebrew-descent word and"
"Synalepha A synalepha or synaloepha is the merging of two syllables into one, especially when it causes two words to be pronounced as one. The original meaning in Ancient Greek is more general than modern usage and includes coalescence of vowels within a word. Similarly, synalepha most often refers to elision (as in English contraction), but it can also refer to coalescence by other metaplasms: synizesis, synaeresis or crasis. Spanish, Portuguese and Italian use synalepha; this is important when counting syllables in poetry. For instance in this hendecasyllable (11-syllable line) by Garcilaso de la Vega: The words ""que"" and ""al"""
"""foot"" and ""path""—or they may belong to different parts of speech, as in the case of the English word ""blackbird"", composed of the adjective ""black"" and the noun ""bird"". With very few exceptions, English compound words are stressed on their first component stem. The process occurs readily in other Germanic languages for different reasons. Words can be concatenated both to mean the same as the sum of two words (e.g. ""Pressekonferenz""—German for press conference) or where an adjective and noun are compounded (e.g. ""hvidvinsglas""—Danish for white wine glass). The addition of affix morphemes to words (such as suffixes or prefixes,"
"new made-up word: Kodak, Verizon, Mimex. Use a sound associated with a product function or other brand idea: Twitter, Meow Mix. Create a character or adopt an existing personage: Green Giant, Nike, Midas Mufflers. Name is a combination of two (or more) words or morphemes, and their definitions, into one new word: Travelocity, Pinterest. Linguistically, names are developed by combining morphemes, phonemes and syntax to create a desired representation of a product. Morphemes differ from words in that many morphemes may not be able to stand alone. The Sprint name is composed of a single word and a single morpheme."
"English word for bird was ""brid"". Anagram An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. For example, the word ""anagram"" can be rearranged into ""nag a ram"", or the word ""binary"" into ""brainy"". The original word or phrase is known as the ""subject"" of the anagram. Any word or phrase that exactly reproduces the letters in another order is an anagram. Someone who creates anagrams may be called an ""anagrammatist"", and the goal of a serious or skilled anagrammatist is to produce"
"Siamese twins (linguistics) Siamese twins (also irreversible binomials, binomials, binomial pairs, nonreversible word pairs, or freezes) in the context of the English language refer to a pair or group of words used together as an idiomatic expression or collocation, usually conjoined by the words ""and"" or ""or"". The order of elements cannot be reversed. The expressions ""milk and honey"" (two nouns), ""short and sweet"" (two adjectives), and ""do or die"" (two verbs) are various examples of Siamese twins. Many Siamese twins are ""catchy"" (and thus clichés and catchphrases) due to alliteration, rhyming, or their ubiquity in society and culture. Word"
"Dvandva A dvandva ( 'pair') is a linguistic compound in which multiple individual nouns are concatenated to form an agglomerated compound word in which the conjunction 'and' has been elided to form a new word with a distinct semantic field. So, for instance, the individual words 'brother' and 'sister' may be agglomerated to 'brothersister' to express ""siblings"". The grammatical number of such constructs is often plural or dual. The term dvandva was borrowed from Sanskrit, a language in which these linguistic compounds are common. Dvandvas also exist in Avestan, the Old Iranian language related to Sanskrit, as well as in"
"combines with “girl” to form the phrase: “The girl” Morphemes combine to form words. Morphemes belong to categories that determine how they combine. For example, the word 'manageable' is made up of two morphemes 'manage' which is a verb and 'able' which is an adjective, these categories tell the morphemes how to combine so they form the word 'manageable.' Smallest meaningful unit in a word. For example, “boys” has two morphemes “boy” and “-s.” A unit of sound such as individual consonants and vowels of a language. For example, /p/, /t/ and /æ/ are phonemes in English. A subset of"
"Binomial pair In linguistics, a binomial pair or binomial is a sequence of two or more words or phrases belonging to the same grammatical category, having some semantic relationship and joined by some syntactic device such as ""and"" or ""or"". Examples in English include ""through and through"", ""(without) let or hindrance"", and ""chalk and cheese"". Several legal terms are binomial pairs, often (but not necessarily) consisting of one Germanic word and one Romance word, such as ""(last) will and testament"" or ""cease and desist"". Binomials are often irreversible; that is, they occur only in one order. For example, one says"
"a noun-plus-adjective into two nouns joined by a conjunction. For example, sound and fury (from act V, scene 5 of ""Macbeth"") seems to offer a more striking image than ""furious sound"". In this example, as typically, the subordinate idea originally present in the adjective is transformed into a noun in and of itself. Another example is Dieu et mon droit, present in the coat of arms of the United Kingdom. In fact, hendiadys is most effective in English when the adjectival and nominal forms of the word are identical. Thus ""the cold wind went down the hall"" becomes the cold"
"the term frenemy. Promoting adversaries Promoting adversaries refers to an unofficiated self-organizing tactical relationship between opposing organizations, in which both opposing sides benefit by attacking each other. The relationship typically relies on either side never fully defeating the other, because the whole time their 'conflict' helps both sides (while each side also simultaneously takes occasional 'acceptable' losses). Promoting adversaries requires neither side to be finally defeated throughout the relationship, because both sides actually prefer the relationship to continue and thus both sides to keep existing and fighting each other. Promoting adversaries works within a tendency where those opposed are increasingly"
"or for adverbial expressions, such as Denglisch may combine words according to English rules by writing them in succession. According to the Standard German grammar and spelling rules, that is incorrect. The first spelling, with two separate words, makes no logical or grammatical connection between the words but simply juxtaposes them. The second combines them into one word, an ""Annahme"" (in this case a place where something is received) for ""Reparaturen"" (repairs). That is often called ""Deppenleerstelle"", or """" which means ""idiot's space"", incorrectly separating parts of a compound word. Some major companies such as Deutsche Bank now conduct much"
"Doublet (linguistics) In etymology, two or more words in the same language are called doublets or etymological twins or twinlings (or possibly triplets, and so forth) when they have different phonological forms but the same etymological root. Often, but not always, the words entered the language through different routes. Given that the kinship between words that have the same root and the same meaning is fairly obvious, the term is mostly used to characterize pairs of words that have diverged at least somewhat in meaning. For example, English ""pyre"" and ""fire"" are doublets with only remotely connected meanings despite both"
"Crasis Crasis (; from the Greek , ""mixing"", ""blending"") is a type of contraction in which two vowels or diphthongs merge into one new vowel or diphthong, making one word out of two. Crasis occurs in Portuguese and Arabic as well as in Ancient Greek, for which it was first described. In some cases, like in the French examples below, crasis involves the grammaticalization of two individual lexical items into one, but in other cases, like in the Greek examples, crasis is the orthographic representation of the encliticization and vowel reduction of one grammatical form with another. The difference between"
"from ""happy ending"". Another process of word formation that can result in a pseudo-anglicism is a blend word, consisting of portions of two words, like brunch or smog. Rey-Debove & Gagnon attest ""tansad"" in French in 1919, from English ""tan[dem]"" + ""sad[dle]]"". Pseudo-anglicisms can be found in many languages that have contact with English around the world, and are attested in nearly all European languages. Many of the following examples may be found in several words (Fun Sport), hyphenated (Fun-Sport), in one word (Funsport) or CamelCase (FunSport). 140. Pseudo-anglicism A pseudo-anglicism is a word in another language that is formed"
"tabloid press referred to them playfully as a third entity, Bennifer. In taxonomies, a conflative term is always a polyseme. Conflation Conflation is the merging of two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, opinions, etc into one, often in error. In logic, it is the practice of treating two distinct concepts as if they were one, which produces errors or misunderstandings as a fusion of distinct subjects tends to obscure analysis of relationships which are emphasized by contrasts. However, if the distinctions between the two concepts appear to be superficial, intentional conflation may be desirable for the sake of"
"varieties of Arabic; or combines features of the vowels, as in → → and → → . Fusion (phonetics) In phonetics and historical linguistics, fusion, or coalescence, is the merger of features from two or more segments into a single segment. A common form of fusion is found in the development of nasal vowels, which frequently become phonemic when final nasal consonants are lost from a language. This occurred in French and Portuguese. Compare the French words ""un vin blanc"" ""a white wine"" with their English cognates, ""one, wine, blank,"" which retain the n's. Another example is the development of"
"Name blending Name blending or meshing is the practice of combining two existing names to form a new name. An example is the combination of the surnames Dresser and McLoughlin to form the new surname of game designer Clay Dreslough. It is most commonly performed upon marriage. According to Western tradition, the wife normally adopts the husband's surname upon marriage. Name blending is an alternative practice that attempts to assign equal cultural value to each partner's surname. In November 2012 it was reported that 800 couples in the United Kingdom had opted to blend their surnames thus far that year,"
"Anagram An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. For example, the word ""anagram"" can be rearranged into ""nag a ram"", or the word ""binary"" into ""brainy"". The original word or phrase is known as the ""subject"" of the anagram. Any word or phrase that exactly reproduces the letters in another order is an anagram. Someone who creates anagrams may be called an ""anagrammatist"", and the goal of a serious or skilled anagrammatist is to produce anagrams that reflect or comment on"
"other grammarians, however, the ekaśeṣa is not properly a compound at all. An example: Dvandva A dvandva ( 'pair') is a linguistic compound in which multiple individual nouns are concatenated to form an agglomerated compound word in which the conjunction 'and' has been elided to form a new word with a distinct semantic field. So, for instance, the individual words 'brother' and 'sister' may be agglomerated to 'brothersister' to express ""siblings"". The grammatical number of such constructs is often plural or dual. The term dvandva was borrowed from Sanskrit, a language in which these linguistic compounds are common. Dvandvas also"
"an essence of who they are within the same name. In double-barrelled names, the hyphen is almost pushing one name away from the other. Meshing says 'I am you and you are me', which is rather romantic"". Occasionally, even anti-fans come up with names for couples, such as ""General Hospital's"" Sonny Corinthos and Emily Quartermaine. The unpopular pairing of the mob boss and his enforcer's sweet younger sister became known as ""Soily"". Similarly, name-blending exists with celebrities' first names. Said to be a sign of commitment and togetherness, meshing is also seen by some as an attempt to banish what"