English Explanatory Dictionary

cranberry morpheme

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A bound morpheme within a complex word that is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to the present speakers of the language.

Word forms

cranberry morpheme cranberry morphemes

Etymology

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.

Related words

cranberry word
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