{"id":853,"date":"2019-12-29T02:42:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T02:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2022-07-07T22:27:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T22:27:38","slug":"libfix-report-for-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/libfix-report-for-december-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Libfix report for December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while ago I acquired a dictionary of English blends (Thurner 1993), and today I went through it looking for candidate libfixes I hadn’t yet recorded. Here are a few I found. From burlesque<\/em>, we have –<\/strong>lesque<\/em><\/strong>, used to form both\u00a0boylesque<\/em> and\u00a0girlesque. <\/em>The\u00a0kumquat<\/em> gives rise to –<\/strong>quat<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em> This is used in two (literal) hybrid fruits: citrangequat<\/em><\/a> and\u00a0limequat<\/em><\/a>. From\u00a0melancholy<\/em> comes –<\/strong>choly<\/strong><\/em>, used to build\u00a0solemncholy<\/em><\/a> ‘a solemn or serious mood’ and the unglossable lemoncholy<\/a>. <\/em>From\u00a0safari<\/em> there is –<\/strong>fari<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>used to build\u00a0seafari<\/em>,\u00a0surfari<\/em>, and\u00a0<\/em>even\u00a0snowfari<\/em>.\u00a0Documentary<\/em> has given rise to –<\/strong>mentary<\/strong><\/em>, as in\u00a0mockumentary<\/em> and\u00a0rockumentary.<\/em><\/p>\n

An interesting case is that of –<\/strong>stache<\/strong><\/em>. While stache<\/em> is a common clipping<\/a> of\u00a0mustache<\/em>, it is commonly used as an affix as well, as in liquid-based beerstache\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0milkstache<\/em> and the pejorative\u00a0fuckstache\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0fuzzstache<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I also found a number of libfix-like elements that can plausibly be analyzed as affixes rather than cases of “liberation”. Some examples are –<\/strong>eteer<\/em><\/strong> (blacketeer<\/em>, stocketeer<\/em>), –<\/strong>legger<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(booklegger<\/em>, meatlegger<\/em>), and –<\/strong>logue<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(duologue<\/em>, pianologue<\/em>, travelogue<\/em>). I do not think these are properly defined as libfixes (they are a bit like -giving<\/em>)<\/a> but I could be wrong.<\/p>\n

References<\/h1>\n

D. Thurner (1993). The Portmanteau Dictionary: Blend Words in the English Language, Including Trademarks and Brand Names<\/em>. MacFarland & Co.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while ago I acquired a dictionary of English blends (Thurner 1993), and today I went through it looking for candidate libfixes I hadn’t yet recorded. Here are a few I found. From burlesque, we have –lesque, used to form both\u00a0boylesque and\u00a0girlesque. The\u00a0kumquat gives rise to –quat. This is used in two (literal) hybrid fruits: … Continue reading “Libfix report for December 2019”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-libfixes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}