tmesis

Tmesis: the inclusion of a whole word within another one.

He also told the audience that tmesis is his favourite trope.

Tmesis: Inserting a word in the middle of another.

One use of tmesis was to divide the elements of personal names.

Examples of tmesis has been found in skaldic poetry.

English has almost no true infixes (as opposed to tmesis, see below), and those it does have are marginal.

According to this view, all kennings are formally compounds, notwithstanding widespread tmesis.

Linguists sometimes describe tmesis as a form of infixation.

You teach a kid what tmesis means, and you can be sure they won't be using it out of context in the future.

Representative English examples of the use of tmesis for added emphasis include:

I thought it was called tmesis.

In addition to the use of kennings, skalds used tmesis to obscure the meaning of the poem.

Turn it off (mandatory tmesis)

Turn off the light OR Turn the light off (optional tmesis)

There was a similar development from Homeric Greek to Classical Greek: see tmesis.

Neurotmesis (in Greek tmesis signifies "to cut") is part of Seddon's classification scheme used to classify nerve damage.

Another kind of tmesis involves the insertion of a word or phrase into another word, for added emphasis and often for humorous effect.

Other words can intervene between a base-word and its genitive determinant, and occasionally between the elements of a compound word (tmesis).

(tmesis, for stress)

Also in Australia, the word bloody is frequently used as a verbal hyphen, or infix, correctly called Tmesis as in "fanbloodytastic".

It is similar to tmesis, but not all instances are covered by the usual definition of tmesis because the words are not necessarily compounds.

One context in which tmesis appears in English involves words using the possessive suffix 's, when it is applied to a noun phrase rather than to a single-word noun.