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Linguistic question 16:35 - Jun 4 with 715 views

Is there a name for a word that you can ad to it and it becomes another word, or you can lob a bit off of a word and what's left is still a word?

For example, venture and adventure.

I was thinking portmanteau, but that's more two words smashed together to form a third.

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Linguistic question on 16:39 - Jun 4 with 705 views

footers

Not sure really, Dollers. Normally with a typical prefix/suffix, you'd refer to the main word after/before it as the 'base'. However, that obviously wouldn't apply to all the examples you're thinking of.

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Linguistic question on 16:57 - Jun 4 with 661 views

factual_blue

A compound noun?

E.g. Dragonfly.

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Linguistic question on 16:58 - Jun 4 with 659 views

Danny_G

Possibly a back-formation or a clipping.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#back-formation

Linguistic question on 17:04 - Jun 4 with 642 views

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Linguistic question on 18:29 - Jun 4 with 605 views

BrixtonBlue

Linguistic question on 16:58 - Jun 4 by Danny_G
Possibly a back-formation or a clipping. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#back-formation

That sounds like the nearest, cheers.

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