In etymology, back-formation is the process of creating a new lexeme (less precisely, a new "word") by removing actual or supposed affixes. The resulting neologism is called a back-formation, a term coined by James Murray in 1897. Back-formation is different from clipping – back-formation changes the part of speech, whereas 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 ve… (More on Back-formation)