collateral form

English

Noun

collateral form (plural collateral forms)

(linguistics) A synonymous but not identical, coexisting form (variation) of a word, such as an accepted alternative spelling.
Podgy is a collateral form of pudgy

Translations

coexisting form of a word

Dutch: nevenvorm

See also

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