cranberry morpheme
nounEtymology From the cran- of cranberry as an archetype. Cran- is from Low German Kraan (“crane”), but is now a bound morpheme, hence an example of a cranberry morpheme.
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Human sciences, Linguistic morphology, Linguistics, Morphology, Sciences A bound morpheme within a complex word that is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to the present speakers of the language.
- Related terms
- cranberry word