Blending is a word formation process where parts of two or more words are combined to create a new word. The meaning of a blended word is often a combination of the original words. Examples include smog from smoke and fog, motel from motor and hotel, and brunch from breakfast and lunch. Backformation is a type of word formation where a word is reduced to form a new word of a different type. For example, the noun television led to the verb televise being created from it. Other examples include donate from donation and edit from editor.

1. Blending
Blending is the word formation process in
which parts of two or more words combine to
create a new word whose meaning is often a
combination of the original words.

2. Blending
• Combining two separate words to produce a
new form by the fusion.
• By reduction of two words
• Beginning of one word and end of another
• Gasoline and alcohol (gasohol), smoke and
fog (smog)
• Telecast and Marathon (telethon)
• Infotainment , Edutainment, Spanglish,

3. For example:
advertisement + entertainment → advertainment
biographical + picture → biopic
breakfast + lunch → brunch
chuckle + snort → chortle
cybernetic + organism → cyborg
guess + estimate → guesstimate
hazardous + material → hazmat
motor + hotel → motel
prim + sissy → prissy
simultaneous + broadcast → simulcast
smoke + fog → smog
spoon + fork → spork
web + seminar → webinar

4. Questions;
1.Biographical + Picture = ?
2.Smoke + Fog = ?
3.Motel = ? + ?
4. Breakfast + Lunch = ?
5.Gasohol = ? + ?
6.Webinar = ? + ?
7.Spanish + English = ?

5. Backformation
• Typically, a word of one type (usually noun) is
reduced to form a word of another type (usually
type)
• A good example of backformation is the process
whereby the noun television first came into use
and then the verb televise was created from it.

6. • Another special kind of reduction
• A word of one type (may be noun) is reduced to
another word of another type
Examples:
donation = donate
option = opt
editor = edit
emotion = emote
obsessive = obsess
procession = process
moonlighter = moonlight
singer = sing
action = act
revision = revise
sculptor = sculpt

7. Questions?
1. Procession = ?
2. Emotion = ?
3. Action = ?
4. Option = ?
5. Singer = ?