ODLT--The Online Dictionary of Language Terminology



amalgam
Definition - A word coined from roots that derive from multiple languages.
Notes:
1. As opposed to a hybrid, which is a word coined by either combining words or roots from different languages. This means that the set of all amalgams is a subset of the set of all hybrids.
2. The process of creating amalgams is called amalgamation.

Example -
The word television is an amalgam of the Greek root tele, far off, and the Latin visionem, act of seeing.



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