cranberry morpheme

== English == === Etymology === From the cran- of cranberry as an archetype. Cran- is from Low German Kraan (“crane”), but is now a bound morpheme, hence an example of a cranberry morpheme. === Noun === cranberry morpheme (plural cranberry morphemes) (linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme within a complex word that is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to the present speakers of the language. ==== Usage notes ==== The term may refer narrowly to morphemes which occur in a single word, or more broadly to fossilized morphemes generally. ==== Related terms ==== cranberry word ==== Translations ====