back-formation

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back formation (enc)

Noun

back-formation - a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it

word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"

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