Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A bound morpheme within a complex word that is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to the present speakers of the language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistic-morphology, linguistics, morphology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
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.
Across languages
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
