Back-formation
Translations of "back-formation" (22 languages)
| Language | Translation | Romanization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | اشْتِقَاق عَكْسِيّ(linguistic process), مُشْتَقَّة عَكْسِيًّا(word formed by this linguistic process) | ištiqāq ʕaksiyy | |
| Danish | subtraktionsdannelse(linguistic process), subtraktionsdannelse(word formed by this linguistic process) | — | |
| Dutch | terugvorming(linguistic process) | — | |
| Esperanto | retrodeveno(linguistic process) | — | |
| Finnish | takaperoisjohdos(word formed by this linguistic process), takaperoisjohto(linguistic process) | — | |
| French | dérivation inverse(linguistic process), rétroformation(linguistic process) | — | |
| German | Rückbildung(linguistic process) | — | |
| Greek | αναδρομικός σχηματισμός(linguistic process) | anadromikós schimatismós | |
| Hebrew | גזירה לאחור(linguistic process) | — | |
| Hungarian | elvonás(linguistic process), elvonás(word formed by this linguistic process), szóelvonás(linguistic process) | — | |
| Italian | retroformazione(linguistic process) | — | |
| Japanese | 逆成(linguistic process) | gyakusei | |
| Norwegian Bokmål | tilbakedannelse(linguistic process), tilbakedannelse(word formed by this linguistic process), tilbakedanning(linguistic process), tilbakedanning(word formed by this linguistic process) | — | |
| Polish | derywacja wsteczna(linguistic process) | — | |
| Portuguese | derivação regressiva(linguistic process) | — | |
| Romanian | derivare regresivă(linguistic process) | — | |
| Russian | обра́тное словообразова́ние(linguistic process) | obrátnoje slovoobrazovánije | |
| Spanish | derivación regresiva(linguistic process), derivado regresivo(word formed by this linguistic process) | — | |
| Swedish | omvänd ordbildning(linguistic process) | — | |
| Upper Sorbian | naspjetna deriwacija(linguistic process), naspjetna deriwacija(word formed by this linguistic process) | — | |
| Vietnamese | phái sinh ngược(linguistic process) | — | |
| Welsh | ôl-ffurf(word formed by this linguistic process), ôl-ffurfiad(linguistic process) | — |
subtraktionsdannelse, subtraktionsdannelse
terugvorming
retrodeveno
takaperoisjohdos, takaperoisjohto
dérivation inverse, rétroformation
Rückbildung
גזירה לאחור
elvonás, elvonás, szóelvonás
retroformazione
tilbakedannelse, tilbakedannelse, tilbakedanning, tilbakedanning
derywacja wsteczna
derivação regressiva
derivare regresivă
derivación regresiva, derivado regresivo
omvänd ordbildning
naspjetna deriwacija, naspjetna deriwacija
phái sinh ngược
ôl-ffurf, ôl-ffurfiad
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