reanalysis

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ analysis.

Noun

Examples (linguistics)
hamburger, which is originally Hamburg +‎ -er, was reanalyzed as ham +‎ -burger, which produced words like cheeseburger outrage as out- +‎ rage

reanalysis (plural reanalyses)

1. A second or subsequent analysis.
2. (linguistics) Analyzing a lexeme with a different structure from its original, often by misunderstanding.
   • 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 265:

     The initial g- in several of the forms is due to reanalysis from syntactic constructions in which the initial k- preceded by a vowel regularly lenites.

Related terms

• reanalyze, reanalyse

Translations

a second or subsequent analysis

• Hungarian: újraelemzés
• Indonesian: kupasan ulang, analisis ulang
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reanalyse m

  Nynorsk: reanalyse m

• Tagalog: balik-suri

linguistics: analyzing a lexeme with a different structure from its original, often by misunderstanding — see also rebracketing

• Hungarian: téves/helytelen tagolás (literally “mistaken segmentation”)
• Indonesian: keliru lema (literally “mistaken lemma”)

See also

• (linguistics: different analysis of a word's structure): surface analysis, folk etymology
• rebracketing

Anagrams

• Israelyans