+ 帰り kaeri (-gaeri) 'returning (home)' 国会議事堂 'national diet building': 国会 kokkai 'national diet' + 議事 'proceedings' + 堂 dō 'hall' Korean: 안팎 anpak 'inside and outside': 안 an 'inside' + 밖 bak 'outside' (As two nouns compound the consonant sound 'b' fortifies into 'p' becoming 안팎 anpak rather than 안밖 ) Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin: mashkikiwaaboo 'tonic': mashkiki 'medicine' + waaboo 'liquid' miskomin 'raspberry': misko 'red' + miin 'berry' dibik-giizis 'moon': dibik 'night' + giizis 'sun' gichi-mookomaan 'white person/American': gichi 'big' + mookomaan 'knife' Spanish: 'science fiction': , 'science', + , 'fiction' (This word is a calque from the English expression science fiction. In English, the head of a compound word is the last morpheme: science fiction. Conversely, the Spanish head is located at the front, so ciencia ficción sounds like a kind of fictional science rather than scientific fiction.) 'centipede': 'hundred' + 'feet' 'railway': 'iron' + 'lane' 'umbrella': 'stops' + '(the) water' 'keeping the head low in a bad mood': cabeza 'head' + bajo 'down' 'seesaw' (contraction of 'goes up and down') 'windshield wiper' is a nested compound: 'clean' + windshield, which is itself a compound of 'stop' + 'breezes'. Tamil: In Cemmozhi (Classical Tamil), rules for compounding are laid down in grammars such as Tolkappiyam and Nannūl, in various forms, under the name punarcci. Examples of compounds include kopuram from 'kō' (king) + 'puram' (exterior). Sometimes phonemes may be inserted during the blending process such as in kovil from 'kō' (king) + 'il' (home). Other types are like vennai (butter) from 'veḷḷai' (white) + 'nei' (ghee); note how 'veḷḷai' becomes 'ven'. In koṭuntamizh (Non-standard Tamil), parts of words from other languages may be morphed into Tamil. Common examples include 'ratta-azhuttam' (blood pressure) from the Sanskrit rakta (blood) and Cemmozhi 'azhuttam' (pressure); note how rakta becomes ratta in Tamil order to remove the consonant-cluster. This also happens with English, for examples kāpi-kaṭai (coffee shop) is from English coffee, which becomes kāpi in Tamil, and the Tamil kaṭai meaning shop. Tłįchǫ Yatiì/Dogrib: dlòotsǫ̀ǫ̀ 'peanut butter': dlòo 'squirrel' + tsǫ̀ǫ̀ 'dung' eyakǫ̀ 'hospital: eya 'sick' + kǫ̀ 'house'dè gotłeè 'kerosene': dè 'land' + gotłeè 'its fat'dǫ łèt'è 'bannock': dǫ '[Aboriginal] people' + łèt'è 'bread' Germanic languages In Germanic languages (including English), compounds are formed by prepending what is effectively a namespace (disambiguation context) to the main word. For example, "football" would be a "ball" in the "foot" context. In itself, this does not