Logseq/Entity/Term/Portmanteau
Portmanteau
- In this garden, Portmanteau pages model terms formed by blending the sounds and meanings of two or more source words into one.
Examples in this garden
An add-on to a term page
- Portmanteau is declared after the type that shapes the page, on a page that is already a term: Logseq/Entity/Term for a glossary entry, or Logseq/Entity/Concept when the blend gets a full explanation, as Satis/fice does.
- Declaration, deduplication, page shape and frontmatter follow the primary type. This page covers only what a portmanteau adds.
What counts as a Portmanteau
- The word is a blend: parts of two or more source words are fused, and the result carries the meaning of both. "Smog" (smoke + fog) is a blend. A compound such as "bookshelf" keeps both words whole and is not one.
- The name comes from Lewis Carroll, whose Humpty Dumpty explains blended words such as "slithy" to Alice as "two meanings packed up into one word" in Through the Looking-Glass (1871).
- A clipped word such as Keyshort is an Logseq/Entity/Abbreviation, and a word built from initials is an Logseq/Entity/Term/Acronym.
What the page records
- Source words — each word the blend draws on, with the meaning each contributes.
- Formation — which parts survive in the blend, for example the start of one word and the end of another.
- Coiner and date — who first used the blend and when, linked to the coiner's Logseq/Entity/Person page, with the source cited in a footnote.
- Earlier senses — any older meaning of the same spelling, when one exists.
Frontmatter
logseq-entity:: — the primary type first, then this page: logseq-entity:: [[Logseq/Entity/Term]], [[Logseq/Entity/Term/Portmanteau]], or logseq-entity:: [[Logseq/Entity/Concept]], [[Logseq/Entity/Term/Portmanteau]].- Shared frontmatter conventions live on Logseq/Frontmatter.
Finding and deduplicating
- Search the blend as a page name, each source word as a title or alias, and any spelling variants of the blend.