"cranberry morpheme" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cranberry morphemes [plural]
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. Head templates: {{en-noun}} cranberry morpheme (plural cranberry morphemes)
  1. (linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme within a complex word that is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to the present speakers of the language. Wikipedia link: cranberry morpheme Categories (topical): Linguistic morphology Related terms: cranberry word Translations (bound morpheme with opaque meaning): karpalomorfeemi (Finnish), unikales Morphem [neuter] (German), Himbeermorphem [neuter] (German)

Inflected forms

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