LEXICOSTATISTICS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("lexicostatistics" is a kind of...):

etymology (the study of the sources and development of words)

Derivation:

lexicostatistic (pertaining to statistical methods used in studying the relations between languages)

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