• Rebracketing (also known as resegmentation or metanalysis) is a process in historical linguistics where a word originally derived from one set of morphemes...
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  • rebracketing of asá flots, meaning "[he] farted (masculine, singular)", "[he] made a fart". Boaz Orly, a miserable person, based on the rebracketing of...
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  • caused by reanalysis of the structure of a word include rebracketing and back-formation. In rebracketing, users of the language change, misinterpret, or reinterpret...
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  • eighth album by Acumen Nation. The name Psycho the rapist is a jocular rebracketing of psychotherapist. "Fanglorious" - 4:57 "Hatchet Harry" - 4:16 "Elective...
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  • "damnation") nother, as in "a whole nother..." (fixed phrase formed by rebracketing another as a nother, then inserting whole for emphasis; almost never...
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    nārang and then Arabic نارنج nāranj. The initial n was lost through rebracketing in Italian and French, though some varieties of Arabic lost the n earlier...
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  • evidence for bracketing, such as the creation of new words via rebracketing. Rebracketing is a type of folk etymology that can result in the creation of...
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    Romance languages may be a case of the linguistic phenomenon known as rebracketing, i.e. Romance speakers may have perceived the sound as the initial phoneme...
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  • variant form originated through the loss of the first syllable through rebracketing and the replacement of final /t/ with /l/ (as /t/ does not appear word-finally...
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    French-language phonology. Resyllabification is related to the process of rebracketing. In English, the word apron is an example of historical resyllabification...
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    *[par-ʕoʔ] evolved into Sahidic Coptic ⲡⲣ̅ⲣⲟ pərro and then ərro by rebracketing p- as the definite article "the" (from ancient Egyptian pꜣ). Other notable...
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  • akrabím. List of English back-formations Folk etymology Backronym Retronym Rebracketing or juncture loss Onomasiology Unpaired word Crystal, David. A Dictionary...
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  • type of tuplet is the triplet. The modern term 'tuplet' comes from a rebracketing of compound words like quintu(s)-(u)plet and sextu(s)-(u)plet, and from...
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  • resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one Rebracketing, a process where a word originally derived from one source is broken...
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  • linguistics, a libfix is a productive bound morpheme affix created by rebracketing and back-formation, often a generalization of a component of a blended...
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    however, there is no certain connection between the food and the city. By rebracketing, the term "burger" eventually became a self-standing word that is associated...
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    authors until the 16th century. The phrase στὸν Εὔριπον 'to Evripos', rebracketed as στὸ Νεὔριπον 'to Nevripos', became Negroponte ("Black Bridge") in...
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    spiral, whirl, convolution" and pteron (πτερόν) "wing". In a process of rebracketing, the word is often (erroneously, from an etymological point of view)...
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  • in contradiction of their strict meanings. The reason for this is a rebracketing, whereby "a nought" and "a naught" have been misheard as "an ought" and...
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    2005 p. 182 and passim "Chaniotis, The Great Inscription" (PDF). cf. Rebracketing of se- + noun Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt, Travels and Researches in Crete...
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  • character illustrations may be considered "Akihabara-chikku". (This is rebracketing, as the actual productive English suffix is -ic. The t is these English...
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  • the few exceptions reflecting overriding linguistic processes such as rebracketing. In certain languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese...
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    roughly to modern Sitia. The name Siteia itself is probably the result of rebracketing of se (σε, "at") and Ēteía. Sitia was founded by Minoans as Itia,[dubious...
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  • seed receiving home-field advantage. In 2007 and 2008, the playoff was rebracketed after the quarterfinals, with the highest surviving seed hosting the...
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    time "a napron" became "an apron" through a linguistic process called rebracketing. There are many different apron forms depending on the purpose of the...
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    711, whence the latter became the source of the name orange through rebracketing (and the former of 'toronja' and 'toranja', which today describe the...
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  • values[citation needed] Bracketing (linguistics), a term in morphological analysis Rebracketing, breaking a word into constituent parts inconsistent with its original...
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    targets Predictive text – Input technology for mobile phone keypads Rebracketing – Process in historical linguistics Spam detection – Methods to prevent...
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    (correctly the root "alcohol" plus the suffix "-ism") by misdividing or rebracketing it into "alco" and "-holism". There are correct medico-legal terms for...
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    name of the Euripus Strait: the phrase στὸν Εὔριπον 'to Evripos', was rebracketed as στὸ Νεὔριπον 'to Nevripos', and became Negroponte in Italian by folk...
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