An amalgamated name is a name that is formed by combining several previously existing names. These may take the form of an
acronym (where only one letter of each name is taken) or a
blend (where a large part of each name is taken, such as the first
syllable).
ExxonMobil, a combination of the companies Exxon and Mobil created when the two oil companies merged in 1999.
Goldwyn Pictures, a motion picture production company founded by Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn) in partnership with Edgar and Archibald Selwyn
TriBeCa, a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York in the United States. Its name is an
acronym composed of the words "Triangle below Canal Street". Also in
Manhattan are
SoHo (from "South of Houston street"),
NoHo (North of Houston Street),
NoLIta (North of
Little Italy, Manhattan) and
NoMad (North of
Madison Square); on the other hand,
DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) is in
Brooklyn.
Stockard Channing, stage and screen name of Susan Stockard and her married name of Channing (the first, from 1963 to 1967, of four marriages)
AZ, a Dutch football club that was formed in 1967 with the merger of two other clubs, Alkmaar '54 and FC Zaanstreek
Jalen Rose, sports analyst and former NBA player who is named after his father and uncle James and Leonard, respectively, and has inspired a trend of young athletes named after him.[1]
Linguistics
Amalgamation is also a term used in linguistics when a
compound contains roots from several languages, without it being part of a blended language. For example, a word with an English and a Spanish root would not be an amalgam, if part of
Spanglish, while an English word with a Greek and a Latin root would. This is also known as a
hybrid word.[citation needed]