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backshift

noun
/ˈbækʃɪft/UK

Etymology

From back + shift.

  1. derived from *skey-✻ — “to cut, divide, separate, part”
  2. derived from *skeyb-✻ — “to separate, divide, part”
  3. inherited from *skiftijaną✻
  4. inherited from sċiftan — “to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”
  5. inherited from schiften
  6. inherited from schyft
  7. compounded as backshift — “back + shift”

Definitions

  1. The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.

  2. A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding…

    A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.

  3. To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for backshift. 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