back-form
back-form · back-forms
A back-formation; a word formed by removing a perceived morpheme from an older wordA back-formation; a word formed by removing a perceived morpheme from an older word.
Meaning
1 sensesA back-formation; a word formed by removing a perceived morpheme from an older word.
Origin
A back-formation from back-formation. By surface analysis, back- + form.A back-formation from back-formation. By surface analysis, back- + form.
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Forms
plural: back-formsWord family
1 related wordsRelatedbackform
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.