Cliping: The reduction element in blending is even more noticeable in the process of clipping.
This occurs when a word of more than one syllable (facsimile) is reduced to a shorter form (fax), usually beginning in casual speech.
Hypocorism: a word-formation process in which a longer word is reduced to a shorter form with -y or -ie at the end.
A particular type of reduction, favored in Australian and British English, produces forms technically known as hypocorisms.
In this process, a longer word is reduced to a single syllable, then -y or -ie is added to the end.
Backformation: the process of reducing a word such as a noun to a shorter version and using it as a new word such as a verb.
A very specialized type of reduction process is known as backformation.
word of one type (usually a noun) is reduced to form a word of another type (usually a verb).