cranberry word

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A word used only in certain fixed phrases or idioms, with a meaning that is otherwise opaque; often a fossil word.
    — Likewise, cranberry words like the underlined words in hediye jawa ‘to be bored to death’ and keMce jawa ‘to go wrong (said of plans)’ were cited by P. Dasgupta (1980: 99–101) as evidence for a base-generated V V analysis of the compound verb construction.
  2. A word that contains a cranberry morpheme.
    — (13d) exhibits the same suffix as the two adjectives that precede it in the list, though the root is otherwise unattested; it is a Greek “cranberry word.”

词形变化

cranberry words plural

词源

From or by analogy with cranberry morpheme.
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