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Hybrid

A word constructed by combining morphemes from different languages. A familiar example is television, in which tele- derives from Greek, while vision derives from Latin.

Other examples are:

megastar (mega from Greek and star from English)
high school (high from English and school from Greek/Latin)
drinkable (English plus French)

 

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