In word formation, a term denoting the process and result, by means of which an originally older and more complex expression gives rise to the formation of a new stem. The original expression is then analyzed synchronically as a derivation on the basis...

// n. 1. A word formed by the removal from another word of a morph which resembles a familiar affix, e.g., edit from editor, sculpt from sculptor, and peddle from pedlar, all by removal of a morph resembling the agent suffix -er, as in writer. 2. A...

n. 1. A word formed by the removal from another word of a morph which resembles a familiar affix, e.g., edit from editor, sculpt from sculptor and peddle from pedlar, all by removal of a morph resembling the agent suffix -er, as in writer. 2. A word...

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...