processes of language change

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Across
  1. 4. A word made up of the first letters of a phrase, where the letters are individually pronounced
  2. 8. Word which is no longer in everyday use
  3. 9. When the meaning of a word becomes more positive
  4. 11. When a word takes on additional new meanings.
  5. 14. When the meaning of a particular word becomes more specific
  6. 15. When the meaning becomes less favourable/more negative
  7. 18. The removal of part of a word
  8. 20. An addition of letters at the beginning of a word
  9. 21. When parts of words are chopped off and put together to form a new word
  10. 22. When a word is coined from a company name/ the name of the inventor of a product
Down
  1. 1. An addition of letters at the end of a word
  2. 2. The contraction of a word or phrase
  3. 3. The indication of the grammatical form (tense, person or number) of a word, usually at the end of the word
  4. 5. Forming a new word from an existing word (such as by adding a prefix or a suffix)
  5. 6. When a word has no associated gender
  6. 7. Creating a new word or new word class from an existing one
  7. 10. Taking words from other languages
  8. 12. A word made up of the first letters of a phrase, which is pronounced as if it were a usual word
  9. 13. A newly invented word
  10. 16. All the words of a language
  11. 17. The creation of completely new words
  12. 19. A more drastic form of back formation, creating new words by extracting an arbitrary portion of a longer word