Re: Small Derivational Idea
| From: | Michael Poxon <mike@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 17:44 |
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I'd always taken cran- to be simply a variant of "crane", which you can find
in placenames such as "Cranfield", "Cranford" and others, so "Cranberry" is
a berry that cranes like to eat.
Mike
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> The canonical example, it seems, of an English morpheme with no
> independent meaning is the "cran-" in "cranberry". "Berry" is a
> morpheme with a known meaning, but "cran-" appears nowhere else
> (unless you count Ocean Spray's juice blend brand names, like
> "Cran-Apple" and "Crantastic", which are portmanteaus).
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