Other words-

formation
strategies
Professor: Ms. Dora Calvo
Members: Aguirre Campos Tomy
Atoche Rumrrill Lourdes
Iparraguirre Garcia Maurizio
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ONY C ontained

U
M B
nderwater
reathing
● Economical way of
expressing a phrase A pparatus

● 1st letter(s)
A cquired
I mmune
D eficiency
S yndrome
INITIA C riminal

LISM I nvestigation
D epartment
• Type of acronym
• Initial letters do no
form new words

B ritish

B roadcasting

C orporation
C ompact
D isk
M
- A C RO N Y
R ead

O nly +
M emory

INI TI AL IS
M
 CLIPP Suggest a kind of familiarity
or popularity
ING
Reduction of a longer word Glastonbury Festival Glasto
Bradley Wiggins Wiggo

credibility cred
mashed mash Trend of forming
combination combo clippings
mobile phone mobile
additional -o sound
 BLEND
S
A blend is kind of compound althought the base words are not joined in their entirety.
Instead, part of one word is merged with part of another word.

Compound Blend
Word
Book + Store Breakfast + Lunch
01 Bookstore 02 Brunch

Blends are also sometimes termed portmanteau words.

 EPONY
It is
MY
the use of a proper
name to refer to an object or Walt Disney is the
action. eponym for the Walt
The resulting word is an Disney Company
eponym.

The Hoover Company

is the eponym for hoover
 ONOMATOPO MIA
OW
MEO
EIA W
Onomatopoeic words are words that
include or imitate sounds.
They vary from language to
language, so the imitation is only WO
approximate.
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 ONOMATOPO GRUFF GRUMBLE GRUMPY

EIA
Onomatopoeic words are the only
words where there is correlation
between the sound of a word and its MEW MEOW MIAOW
meaning.

CLANG CLANK CLASH

 TY
PE
TOTAL
REDUPLIC S
REDUPLICATIO
It is
ATION
a morphological operation of
NYUM-YUM WEE-WEE
repetition.
It is often used when a speaker adopts a
tone that is more expressive or figurative PARTIAL
than ordinary speech.
REDUPLICATIO
N DING- WILLY-
DONG NILLY
EMPHATIC CHILD
REPETITION LANGUAGE

NO-NO! BO-BO DA-DA

 LOANWOR CROISSANT FRENCH

DS OR
BORROWI DOPE DUTCH

They are NGS

words wich are adopted
into English from another language, LILAC PERSIAN
that means, when two languages
come into contact.
PIANO ITALIAN

PRETZEL GERMAN
 SOFA ARABIC
LOANWOR
DS OR
BORROWI
TATOO TAHITIAN
In any case, most of these
NGS
words have been anglicised,
that means they no longer TYCOON SUSHI JAPANESE
take the form they would take
in their language of origin but
have been adoptep to sound
YOGURT TURKISH
or look English, and
wholesale borrowing is
relatively common.
TORTILLA SPANISH