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back-form

noun

Etymology

A back-formation from back-formation. By surface analysis, back- + form.

Definitions

  1. A back-formation

    A back-formation; a word formed by removing a perceived morpheme from an older word.

  2. To form a word by a back-formation process.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for back-form. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA