In etymology, back-formation refers to the process of creating a new lexeme (less precisely, a new "word") by removing actual or supposed affixes. The resulting neologism's called a back-formation, a term coined by James Murray in 1897. Back-formation's distinguished from clipping because they change the part of speech – clipping also creates shortened words from longer words, but does not change the part of speech. For example, the noun resurrection was borrowed from Latin, and the verb r… (More on Back-formation)