fractomorpheme

plural fractomorphemes

1. human sciencesA productive morpheme (one which readily forms new words) which originates as a shortened form of another word.

   In sum, "pussy blends" are more likely to fall into the category of secreted affixation, in which case -ussy would have become, however ephemerally, a fractomorpheme (cf. Watergate > -gate).

   2018, Michael Dow, “A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends”, in Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Ottawa: Canadian Linguistic Association, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2024, page 13