Mixed abbreviation
A mixed abbreviation is the abbreviation of words , which consists of a mixed form of an initial word (as a narrower definition of an acronym ) and a short syllable word .
Examples
- Unimog - Uni versal mo tor g et up instrument (original spelling)
- Degussa - De funnel G old- u nd S Ilber s cheide a nstalt
- AWO - A rbeiter where hlfahrt
- Apprentice - A us zubi ldender
- BAföG - B UNDES a usbildungs fö rderungs g Finances Act
- Amades - A rbeitspapiere and Ma terialien to de slide around S anguage (title of a series of publications)
Classification and demarcation
The mixing short words to the multisegmental short words counted. In this respect, they differ from the unisegmental abbreviations , which only consist of the beginning or the end segment of a full shape (such as: "battery" for battery or "bus" from car bus or omni bus ).
Within the multisegment abbreviations there are - alongside the mixed abbreviations
- Initial words , letters and words, such as TUV ( T echnical Ü berwachungs- V erein) ADAC ( A ENERAL D eutscher A utomobil- C lub)
- Syllable short words such as " Stasi " - Sta ats si certainty or " Bobby " ( Schu tz po lizist)