Write a detailed essay on the process of word-formation in english
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The expression 'word-formation' or 'word-making' or 'word-building' means the process of creating or forming words out of sequences of morphemes or words. In English, word-formation has got a great importance, because the resources of this language have been enriched by this phenomenon as well as by borrowings from various other languages. New words have continued to be made from old ones, and have thus added to the existing store of words or vocables.
Various processes of word-making have been at work in English, the chief of which are—
i. Compounding or Composition
ii. Derivation
iii. Conversion, or Functional shift
iv. Reduction, Subtraction, or Shortening
v. Making of Abbreviations and Acronyms
vi. Reduplication
vii. Making of Proper Names from the Common ones
viii. Blending
ix. Imitation
x. Coinage, and Root-creation
Given below is a discussion of these processes:
(i) Compounding or composition
Words that cannot be rendered into a simpler form, are termed 'simple' or 'primary' words or roots. Boy, eat, fit, sad and log are some such words.