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What is the linguistics term for descriptive names?

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What's the term for finding an attestation of a word that predates the earliest known one?

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Origin of the term “iminutive”

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Is there a name for a diminutive whose meaning has decoupled from the original word?

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What do you call double consonants that are not affricates?

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Names of the letters in the Latin script

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Term for when speakers of L1, over time, pronounce words in their language like phonetically similar words found in the more dominant L2?

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Could someone give an easily understandable explanation of “derivation rules”?

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Is there a word for “mouth transitions” which describes the movement of a mouth which is saying one word, but preparing for the next?

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Name of assertions in sentences where negation of the whole sentence doesn't negate the assertion

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What's it called? Indicating no exceptions to the rule

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Antiphrasis vs. Auto-antonymy

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Does the stem of a word carry the sense information of its inflections?

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What is the linguistic term for nouns which are used as verb infinitive?

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