derivation
in linguistics, the process of forming a new word on the basis of an existing one
acronym
abbreviation made out of the first letters of the words of a sequence
grammaticalization
process of language change by which words representing objects and actions become grammatical markers
analogical change
linguistic concept
clipped compound
form of linguistic clipping for a compound term
suppletion
linguistic process in which inflections of etymologically unrelated stems come to be treated as the inflected forms of the same lexeme
corruption
linguistic phenomenon
metathesis
the rearranging of sounds or syllables in a word or of words in a sentence in linguistics
calque
word or expression adopted from a foreign language by translation of its constituent morphemes
blend word
word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two or more others (e.g. smoke + fog → smog)
epenthesis
phonological process involving the addition of one or more sounds to a word
back-formation
linguistic process of creating a new word by removing apparent affixes or inflections from a preexisting word
voicing
phonetic phenomenon
Arabism
loanword resembling an Arabic etymon
fronting
shift in articulation of a sound from the back of throat or palate to the front
augmentative
morphological form, like over-bearing or super-national
contraction
shortened version of a word, syllable or word group
ellipsis
omission from a clause of one or more words that are nevertheless understood in the context of the remaining elements
linguistic borrowing
linguistic phenomenon, the process of incorporating loanwords
negation
grammatical form that encodes negative polarity or falsity
crasis
vowel sandhi process
clipping
in morphology and linguistics, the reduction of a word to one of its parts
conversion
word formation involving the creation of a word from an existing word without any change in form
parasynthesis
type of lexical derivation
apocope
loss of word-final sounds
anagram
word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase
assimilation
phonological process in linguistics
reduplication
linguistic phenomenon
rhyming slang
any system of slang in which a word is replaced with a phrase that rhymes with it
semantic change
form of language change regarding the evolution of word usage