The Loanword morpheme ”-CON” in Japanese

Many of the rear constituents of abbreviation compound words in Japanese are the loanword morpheme”-CON”, such as “EAKON”,” PASOKON”, “MAZAKON”, “MISUKON” and so on. However, all of the abbreviation compound words with rear constituent”-CON” mentioned above actually don’t mean the same. They are homophones.
The study will clarify the meaning of the compound abbreviation “-CON” which is the rear constituent from the semantic order first. Then, investigating the essence of Japanese morpheme “-CON” from the viewpoint of the word formation rules, word formation ability, the rule of abbreviation and the collocations to discuss the feature of the word formation of”-CON” being the Japanese morpheme.
The study confirmed that there are 34 original bases of the homonym of”-CON”, including” KONSATO”,” KONPYUTA” and” KONPA”. In addition, according to the feature of the word formation of”-CON”, we could sort out that the most classical word formation pattern which includes abbreviation rear constituent”-CON” is (abbreviations by omitting part of the front and rear constituents) [loanword morpheme with two syllables+ CON].
And last, analyze the essence of”-CON” and discuss its position being a part of the abbreviation of bound morpheme through the comparative analysis of “Unsemantic Morpheme” and the loanword abbreviation base” ROKE” and” REJI” by Miyajima (1972).