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frankenword

English

Etymology

franken- +? word

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?f?æ?kn??w??(?)d/
  • (US) enPR: fr?ngk?(?)n-wûrd', IPA(key): /?f?æ?k(?)n?w?d/

Noun

frankenword (plural frankenwords)

  1. (neologism) A word formed by combining two (or more) other words; a portmanteau.

Alternative forms

  • Frankenword

Synonyms

  • blend, portmanteau, portmanteau word

Related terms

  • frankenfish
  • frankenfood
  • Frankenstein

Translations

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blend

English

Etymology

From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ?eblandan, ?eblendan or from Old Norse blanda (to blend, mix) (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend; compare blendingr (a blending, a mixture; a half-breed)), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blandan? (to blend; mix; combine). Compare Middle Dutch blanden (to mix), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (blandan), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (blesti, to go astray).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bl?nd, IPA(key): /bl?nd/
  • Rhymes: -?nd
  • Homophone: blende

Noun

blend (plural blends)

  1. A mixture of two or more things.
    Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal.
    Our department has a good blend of experienced workers and young promise.
  2. (linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word.
    The word brunch is a blend of the words breakfast and lunch.

Synonyms

  • (mixture): combination, mix, mixture
  • (in linguistics): frankenword, portmanteau, portmanteau word

Translations

Verb

blend (third-person singular simple present blends, present participle blending, simple past and past participle blended or (poetic) blent)

  1. (transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
  2. (intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.
    • There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.
    • 1817, John Keats, Happy is England!
      To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent
  3. (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:blend.

Synonyms

  • (to mix; to unite intimately): See also Thesaurus:homogenize, Thesaurus:mix, and Thesaurus:coalesce

Derived terms

  • blender
  • blended
  • blend in
  • blendingly

Translations

References

Anagrams

  • L-bend

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

  • blenk (Ripuarian; now chiefly western dialects)
  • blond, blönd (Eifel)

Etymology

From Old High German blind, northern variant of blint.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blent/

Adjective

blend (masculine blenne or blende, feminine blenn or blend, comparative blenner or blender, superlative et blendste)

  1. (Moselle Franconian, some dialects of Ripuarian) blind; unable to see

Usage notes

  • The inflected forms with -nn- are used in those dialects in which blend is the inherited form (Moselle Franconian, southern Ripuarian). The forms with -nd- are used in Ripuarian to the extent to which inherited blenk has been replaced with blend.

Dutch

Verb

blend

  1. first-person singular present indicative of blenden
  2. imperative of blenden

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