denominalization
English
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truncheon (“a short staff; a club”) → truncheon (“to strike with a truncheon”) |
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From de- + nominal + -ization.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]denominalization (countable and uncountable, plural denominalizations)
- (linguistics) The process through which a noun becomes a verb related to the use of said noun.