back-form

See also: backform and Backform

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

A back-formation from back-formation.

Noun

back-form (plural back-forms)

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

Verb

back-form (third-person singular simple present back-forms, present participle back-forming, simple past and past participle back-formed)

  1. (transitive) To form a word by a back-formation process.
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