back-formation

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Strana kategorija

Engleski

Sistem

en+ng=eng

Alternative forms

• backformation, back formation

Etymology

Coined by Scottish lexicographer i philologist James Murray in 1889; from back- +‎ formation.

Noun

back-formation (countable and uncountable, plural back-formations)

1. (uncountable, linguistics) Proces kojim se nova reč formira od starije reči tumačenjem prve kao derivata druge, često uklanjanjem morfeme morpheme (real or perceived) from the older word, such as the verb burgle, formed by removing -ar (perceived as an agent-noun suffix) from burglar.
2. (countable) A word created in this way.

   Sinonim: back-form

   Back-formations, such as "tambour" (for "play the tambourine"), are a staple of comedic wordplay.

Derived terms

• back-form

Translations

linguistic process

• Arabic: اشْتِقَاق عَكْسِيّ (ar) m (ištiqāq ʕaksiyy)
• Danish: subtraktionsdannelse c
• Dutch: terugvorming (nl)
• Esperanto: retrodeveno (eo)
• Finnish: takaperoisjohto (fi)
• French: dérivation régressive (fr) f, dérivation inverse (fr) f, rétroformation (fr) f
• German: Rückbildung (de) f
• Greek: αναδρομικός σχηματισμός (el) m (anadromikós schimatismós)
• Hebrew: גזירה לאחור (he)
• Hungarian: elvonás (hu), szóelvonás (hu)
• Italian: retroformazione (it)
• Japanese: 逆成 (ぎゃくせい, gyakusei)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tilbakedannelse m, tilbakedanning c

• Polish: derywacja wsteczna f
• Portuguese: derivação regressiva (pt) f
• Romanian: derivare regresivă (ro) f
• Russian: obrátnoe slovoobrazovánie n (obrátnoje slovoobrazovánije)
• Spanish: derivación regresiva f
• Swedish: omvänd ordbildning
• Vietnamese: phái sinh ngược
• Welsh: ôl-ffurfiad m

word formed by this linguistic process

• Arabic: مُشْتَقَّة عَكْسِيًّا f (muštaqqa(t) ʿaksiyyan)
• Danish: subtraktionsdannelse c
• Finnish: takaperoisjohdos (fi)
• Hungarian: elvonás (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tilbakedannelse m, tilbakedanning c

• Spanish: derivado regresivo m
• Welsh: ôl-ffurf f

See also

• disfixation
• Category:Back-formations by language
• Category:English back-formations