Associations to the word «Reanalysis»
Wiktionary
REANALYSIS, noun. A second or subsequent analysis.
REANALYSIS, noun. (linguistics) Analyzing a lexeme with a different structure from its original, often by misunderstanding. For example, hamburger, which is originally Hamburg + -er, was reanalyzed as ham + -burger, which produced words like cheeseburger.
Wise words
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.