fractomorphemes

Noun

fractomorpheme (plural fractomorphemes)

1. A productive morpheme (one which readily forms new words) which originates as a shortened form of another word.
   • In sum, "pussy blends" are more likely to fall into the category of secreted affixation, in which case -ussy would have become, however ephemerally, a fractomorpheme (cf. Watergate > -gate).2018, Michael Dow, “A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends”, in Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Ottawa: Canadian Linguistic...