Entertainment / Literature / Compounding: A term from linguistics used to describe the creation of a new word (neologism') that comes about by taking two existing words and sticking them together to create a brand new concept (Horobin 192). All languages do this to some extent. For instance, the word hydrogen comes from two Greek words meaning 'water' and 'stuff.' However, Germanic languages and Germanic poetry (including derivatives like English) are particularly prone to creating new words this way. Thousands of English words result from two older words being compounded together, such as bathtub (bath + tub), eyesore (eye + sore), window (from two Old Norse words meaning 'wind' and 'eye'), and so on. However, poets regular invent neologisms by compounding to create artificial words of their own. Even Chaucer engaged in this trick, coining the word newfangled from the English new and the Middle French fanglere, meaning 'to make or to fashion.' See neologism, blending, and kenning.
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