ODLT--The Online Dictionary of Language Terminology



amalgamation
Definition - The process of creating amalgams, i.e., blends that contain roots from multiple languages.

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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