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back-form

noun, verb — 2 senses

back-form

noun

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

1

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

Related terms
backform

back-form

verb

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

1

To form a word by a back-formation process.

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.