cranberry morpheme
Noun

cranberry morpheme (plural cranberry morphemes)

  1. (linguistics) A bound morpheme within a complex word that is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to the present speakers of the language. May refer narrowly to morphemes which occur in a single word, or more broadly to fossilized morphemes generally.
Related terms
  • cranberry word
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