back-form
See also: Backform
English
Etymology
Back-formation from back-formation.
Noun
back-form (plural back-forms)
- A back-formation; a word formed by removing a perceived morpheme from an older word.
Verb
back-form (third-person singular simple present back-forms, present participle back-forming, simple past and past participle back-formed)
- To form a word by a back-formation process.