Fossil word
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A fossil word is an obsolete word which remains in currency because it is contained within an idiom still in use.
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See also
- Bound morpheme
- Collocation — tendency of one word to occur near another
- Cranberry morpheme — morpheme which has no independent meaning in a lexeme
- Fossilization (linguistics)
- Siamese twins (linguistics)
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