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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French fractomorphème, itself coined by French linguist Jean Tournier. By surface analysis, fracto- + morpheme.
Noun
fractomorpheme (plural fractomorphemes)
- (linguistics) A productive morpheme (one which readily forms new words) which originates as a shortened form of another word.
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 Association, archived from the original on 2024-01-17, page 13: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).