back-formation
n.
(Linguistics) word formed from its derivative (e.g.: "greed" from "greedy; "edit" from "editor"); process of forming words in this manner
Back-formation
In
etymology, back-formation refers to the process of creating a new
lexeme (less precisely, a new "word") by removing actual or supposed
affixes. The resulting
neologism is called a back-formation. Back-formations are shortened words created from longer words, thus back-formations may be viewed as a sub-type of
clipping.
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back-formation
Noun
1. a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it
(hypernym) word
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