back-formed
English
Etymology
First attested in 1911 (adjective sense 1).
Adjective
- Formed by back-formation.
- 1911, Vilhelm Bladin, “X. ‘Back-formed’ denominatives”, in Studies on Denominative Verbs in English: Inaugural Dissertation[1], quoted in OED, page 52:
- To coin an example from this very word [sc. backformation], we might use the phrase, «such and such a word is back-formed from etc.»
Verb
back-formed
- simple past and past participle of back-form
- 1911, Vilhelm Bladin, “X. ‘Back-formed’ denominatives”, in Studies on Denominative Verbs in English: Inaugural Dissertation[2], quoted in OED, page 52:
- To coin an example from this very word [sc. backformation], we might use the phrase, «such and such a word is back-formed from etc.»
Further reading
- “back-formed, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- “back-formation”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN, page 131, column 1.