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hyperforeign

adj

Etymology

First use appears c. 1933 as hyper-foreign, and c. 1983 as hyperforeign. From hyper- + foreign. Compare hypercorrect and hypercorrection.

  1. derived from forās
  2. derived from *forānus✻
  3. derived from forain
  4. inherited from foreyn
  5. prefixed as hyperforeign — “hyper + foreign”

Definitions

  1. Resulting from the misapplication of foreign reading rules, such as dropping the ‘t’ in…

    Resulting from the misapplication of foreign reading rules, such as dropping the ‘t’ in claret.

    • Half-literate persons, who try, without proper knowledge, to pronounce a foreign language, are apt to coin hyper-foreign forms, a special kind of hyper-correction.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hyperforeign. 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