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For questions about derivation, i.e., the process of forming new words from existing words.

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What is the term for this derivation: "Cheeseburger comes from Hamburger" but... the word ha...

Two relevant terms are back-formation and reanalysis (along with rebracketing and folk etymology) already mentioned in other answers). Reanalysis is (in my experience) the most general of these, cover …
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