rebracketing

English

Etymology

re- +‎ bracketing

Noun

Examples
hamburger as ham +‎ burger (rather than Hamburg +‎ -er) helicopter as heli +‎ copter (rather than helico +‎ -pter) weblog as we +‎ blog (rather than web +‎ log)

rebracketing (countable and uncountable, plural rebracketings)

1. (linguistics) The process by which a word originally derived from one source is broken down or bracketed into a different set of factors.

   Synonyms: metanalysis, resegmentation

Translations

the process by which a word originally derived from one source is broken down or bracketed into a different set of factors — see also reanalysis

• French: métanalyse (fr) f, mécoupure (fr) f
• Hungarian: szóhatár-eltolódás
• Japanese: 異分析 (ibunseki)
• Spanish: nirucción

See also

• folk etymology
• libfix
• reanalysis
• surface analysis