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In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding, composition or nominal composition

A compound is a word composed of more than one free morpheme. The English language, like many others, uses compounds frequently. English compounds may

from a compound, which fully preserves the stems of the original words. The British lecturer Valerie Adams's 1973 Introduction to Modern English Word-Formation

linguistics, a clipped compound is a word produced from a compound word by reducing its parts while retaining the meaning of the original compound. It is a special

via compounding. Words consisting of hundreds, or even thousands of characters have been coined. Even non-agglutinative languages may allow word formation

word boundaries. It is often the case that a phonological word does not correspond to our intuitive conception of a word. The Finnish compound word pääkaupunki

compound word, African American resembles the vogue word Afro-American, an early-1970s popular usage. Some Black Americans continue to use the word nigger

romanized: bahuvrīhi, lit. 'having much rice'), or bahuvrīhi compound, is a type of compound word that denotes a referent by specifying a certain characteristic

Sanskrit) is a linguistic compound in which multiple individual nouns are concatenated to form an agglomerated compound word in which the conjunction has

voiced consonant /ɡ/ in the compound word origami, from ori (fold) + kami. Rendaku is common, but it does not occur in all compound words. A rule known as