1440: -lect: Formal Combining Forms Nov 20, 2018

There are many times when a commonly used word will lead to the creation of other words. For instance, 'alcoholic' lead to the combining form '-aholic' which relates to any type of addiction, such as commonly 'workaholic', but this can also be done with any other noun. That is slightly informal, but that informality is not always the case. In linguistics, the combining form '-lect' from 'dialect' can be tacked onto other words in order to indicate that it relates to anything dialectal. For instance, 'basilect' is the academic term for the least prestigious (or at least little-prestigious) dialect for a given language.