- Today we’ll be talking about some portmanteau words. These are words that blend the sounds and combine the meanings of two other words.
- A portmanteau word is created by combining two existing words. ... You see it’s like a portmanteau — there are two meanings packed up into one word.
- Similarly, a portmanteau word is formed when two words are amalgamated and morphed to create a new word, similar to packing two words in a suitcase.
- Examples[change | change source]. Portmanteau itself is an example, combining the French words for carry (porter) and coat (manteau) into a coat carrier.
- Coordinate blends (also called associative or portmanteau blends) combine two words having equal status, and have two heads.
- Interestingly, the word portmanteau itself is also a blend of two different words: porter (to carry) and manteau (a cloak). Here are some interesting examples
- A portmanteau is a linguistic blend that occurs when the sounds, spellings and meanings of two words are combined to make a new one.
- List Portmanteau words. A Portmanteau word is made by starting few alphabets from Word1 and starting or ending few alphabets from Word2.
- Portmanteau words are words made from two or more other words. I wrote a program to generate some portmanteau words using a thesaurus (WordNet).
- A portmanteau word is formed out of parts of other words. Oxbridge is made up from parts of the names of Oxford and Cambridge and refers to either of the...