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Compound nouns, like snowflake, contain a head (-flake ) and a modifying element (snow- ).
By avoiding the need for a preposition, compound nouns can help you write more concisely: "running shoes" instead of "shoes for running".
In Romance languages, compound nouns are used much less frequently than in Germanic languages.