Slithy means "slimy and lithe" and mimsy means "miserable and flimsy". The word portmanteau was introduced in this sense by Lewis Carroll in the book Through the Looking-Glass (1871), where Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of unusual words used in " Jabberwocky". If it were called a stish or a starsh, it would be a portmanteau. For instance, starfish is a compound, not a portmanteau, of star and fish, as it includes both words in full. A portmanteau also differs from a compound, which does not involve the truncation of parts of the stems of the blended words. Ī portmanteau word is similar to a contraction, but contractions are formed from words that would otherwise appear together in sequence, such as do and not to make don't, whereas a portmanteau is formed by combining two or more existing words that all relate to a single concept. In linguistics, a portmanteau is a single morph that is analyzed as representing two (or more) underlying morphemes. ( May 2020)Ī portmanteau ( / p ɔːr t ˈ m æ n t oʊ/ ( listen), / ˌ p ɔːr t m æ n ˈ t oʊ/) or portmanteau word (from " portmanteau (luggage)") is a blend of words in which parts of multiple words are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.
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