Compounding: the process of combining two (or more) words to form a new word.
Two distinct words are combined to create a single form.
Languages like German and English use this combination procedure a lot, whereas languages like French and Spanish use it far less. This process is called compounding.
Blending: the process of combining the beginning of one word and the end of another word to form a new word.
It is the process of combining two separate forms to create a single new term, typically by joining the beginning of one word to the end of the other.Â