Back-formations, such as "tambour" (for "play the tambourine"), are a staple of comedic wordplay.
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Back-formation
Synonyms for "back-formation" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Translations
34 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- اشْتِقَاق عَكْسِيّ noun (linguistic process)
- مُشْتَقَّة عَكْسِيًّا noun (word formed by this linguistic process)
Danish
2 entries- subtraktionsdannelse noun (linguistic process)
- subtraktionsdannelse noun (word formed by this linguistic process)
Dutch
1 entries- terugvorming noun (linguistic process)
Esperanto
1 entries- retrodeveno noun (linguistic process)
Finnish
2 entries- takaperoisjohdos noun (word formed by this linguistic process)
- takaperoisjohto noun (linguistic process)
French
2 entries- dérivation inverse noun (linguistic process)
- rétroformation noun (linguistic process)
German
1 entries- Rückbildung noun (linguistic process)
Greek
1 entries- αναδρομικός σχηματισμός noun (linguistic process)
Hebrew
1 entries- גזירה לאחור noun (linguistic process)
Hungarian
3 entries- elvonás noun (linguistic process)
- elvonás noun (word formed by this linguistic process)
- szóelvonás noun (linguistic process)
Italian
1 entries- retroformazione noun (linguistic process)
Japanese
1 entries- 逆成 noun (linguistic process)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- tilbakedannelse noun (linguistic process)
- tilbakedannelse noun (word formed by this linguistic process)
- tilbakedanning noun (linguistic process)
- tilbakedanning noun (word formed by this linguistic process)
Polish
1 entries- derywacja wsteczna noun (linguistic process)
Portuguese
1 entries- derivação regressiva noun (linguistic process)
Romanian
1 entries- derivare regresivă noun (linguistic process)
Russian
1 entries- обра́тное словообразова́ние noun (linguistic process)
Spanish
2 entries- derivación regresiva noun (linguistic process)
- derivado regresivo noun (word formed by this linguistic process)
Swedish
1 entries- omvänd ordbildning noun (linguistic process)
Upper Sorbian
2 entries- naspjetna deriwacija noun (linguistic process)
- naspjetna deriwacija noun (word formed by this linguistic process)
Vietnamese
1 entries- phái sinh ngược noun (linguistic process)
Welsh
2 entries- ôl-ffurf noun (word formed by this linguistic process)
- ôl-ffurfiad noun (linguistic process)
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