The definition provided as of 12 July 2012 seems very narrow. I was looking this up online and came upon everything from no mention in some dictionaries to something relating to virtual reality. It strikes me that it would be useful at least to explain the latin origins (exo and centric) at some length and then point out that the term seems to be used in a variety of different contexts but is not widely recognised. I attempted something like this but fell foul of my unfamiliarity with contributing to Wiki and the need for strict formatting.
Is there anyone out there who might be better placed to at least make a start on this?
Prelerah (talk) 12:41, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
"Not having the same part of speech as any of its constituent words." However, cutpurse and redhead are exocentric compounds, even though in both cases they are nouns with internal noun elements (purse and head): they are exocentric because neither element carries the bulk of the semantics, i.e. a redhead is not a head (it's a person). Equinox ◑ 18:18, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
Oddly enough we have cutpurse listed in the English exocentric compounds category (which I’m unable to link to for some reason) but not redhead. Is that a mistake? Should we add it to that category? Overlordnat1 (talk) 11:02, 9 April 2022 (UTC)