portmanteau

A large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments.

A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words, as chortle, from chuckle and snort.

A word or part of a word that is analyzable as consisting of more than one morpheme without a clear boundary between them, as French du “of the” from de “of” and le “the.”.

General or generalized.

A case used in journeying for containing clothing: originally adapted to the saddle of a horseman, and therefore nearly cylindrical and of flexible make.