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re-etymologizing

re-etymologizing is the present participle and gerund of re-etymologize.

Meaning of re-etymologize

Verb

re-etymologize (third-person singular simple present re-etymologizes, present participle re-etymologizing, simple past and past participle re-etymologized)

  1. To modify a word's phonological form in accordance with a reanalysis.

Questions about re-etymologizing

What is re-etymologizing the present participle and gerund of?
Re-etymologizing is the present participle and gerund of re-etymologize.

Words near re-etymologizing in the dictionary

  1. re-etymologization
  2. re-etymologizations
  3. re-etymologize
  4. re-etymologized
  5. re-etymologizes
  6. re-etymologizing
  7. re-evaluate
  8. re-evaluated
  9. re-evaluates
  10. re-evaluating
  11. re-evaluation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-etymologizing (page history and authors); re-etymologize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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