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gerontonym

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  • Perhaps better to stay with pseudoetymonym and save the prefix geronto - to form gerontonym, meaning "an old word," especially one whose original meaning has been altered, but is not necessarily now false.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4 1998

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