cranberry morpheme

Etymology
From the cran- of as an archetype. Cran- is from Low German, but is now a bound morpheme, hence an example of a cranberry morpheme.

Noun

 * 1)  A bound morpheme within a complex word that is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to the present speakers of the language.

Usage notes

 * The term may refer narrowly to morphemes which occur in a single word, or more broadly to fossilized morphemes generally.

Translations

 * Finnish: karpalomorfeemi
 * German:, Himbeermorphem