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English - Turkish
Definition of back formation in English Turkish dictionary
- sözcük üretme
- kökten türetilen kelime
English - English
Definition of back formation in English English dictionary
- Alternative spelling of backformation
- a new word formed from an older word, for example 'televise', which is formed from 'television'
- back formations
- plural form of back formation
- back-formation
- The process by which a new word is formed by removing a morpheme (real or perceived) of an older word, such as the verb burgle, formed by removing -ar (perceived as a suffix forming an agent noun) from burglar
- back-formation
- A word created in this way
Back-formations, such as tambour (for play the tambourine), are a staple of comedic wordplay.
- back-formation
- {i} (Linguistics) word formed from its derivative (e.g.: "greed" from "greedy; "edit" from "editor"); process of forming words in this manner
- back-formation
- a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it
- backformation
- alternative spelling of back-formation
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back formation
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back for·ma·tionTurkish pronunciation
bäk fôrmeyşınPronunciation
/ˈbak fôrˈmāsʜən/ /ˈbæk fɔːrˈmeɪʃən/
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