Compounding and Clipping

Compounding

Compounding is the process where two or more roots combine to produce a new word, for example: horse + cat = horse-cart; rail + way = railway. Compounds are from all classes of words, including minor classes.

Tipe Penulisan Compound Noun

Tipe Penulisan	Detail	Contoh Compound Noun
Solid/Closed	digabung menjadi satu kata	raincoat, waterfall, toothbrush
Hyphenated	disambung dengan tanda baca hyphen ( – )	check-in, mother-in-law, twenty-year-old
Oped/Spaced	ditulis menjadi dua kata terpisah	full moon, human rights, upper class

Kombinasi Compound Noun

Kombinasi noun dengan noun atau part of speech lain untuk membentuk kata benda majemuk ini antara lain sebagai berikut.

Kombinasi Antara		Contoh Hasil Kombinasi
Noun	Noun	newspaper, toothpaste, bed cover
Noun	Verb	roadshow, rainfall, milkshake
Noun	Adjective	snow white
Noun	Prepositional Phrase	mother-in-law, hanger on, passer-by
Verb	Noun	dance floor, swimming pool, break water
Verb	Verb	freeze-dry
Verb	Adjective	Tumbledown
Adjective	Noun	blackboard, software
Adjective	Verb	dry-cleaning, highlight,
Adjective	Adjective	blue-green
Adjective	Preposition	Forthwith
Preposition	Noun	in house, on time, offline
Preposition	Verb	output, undercut, outlook
Preposition	Adjective	over-ripe
Preposition	Preposition	Without

Clipping

This process occurs when a multisyllabic word is shortened, as in the examples:

Examination à exam

Dormitory à dorm

Laboratory à lab

Professor à prof

Telephone à phone

Delicatessen à deli

References :

http://www.wordsmile.com/pengertian-dan-contoh-compound-nouns

Baskaran, Loga Mahesan. 2005. A Lingustic Primer for Malaysian. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press.