processes of language change

4. A word made up of the first letters of a phrase, where the letters are individually pronounced
8. Word which is no longer in everyday use
9. When the meaning of a word becomes more positive
11. When a word takes on additional new meanings.
14. When the meaning of a particular word becomes more specific
15. When the meaning becomes less favourable/more negative
18. The removal of part of a word
20. An addition of letters at the beginning of a word
21. When parts of words are chopped off and put together to form a new word
22. When a word is coined from a company name/ the name of the inventor of a product

1. An addition of letters at the end of a word
2. The contraction of a word or phrase
3. The indication of the grammatical form (tense, person or number) of a word, usually at the end of the word
5. Forming a new word from an existing word (such as by adding a prefix or a suffix)
6. When a word has no associated gender
7. Creating a new word or new word class from an existing one
10. Taking words from other languages
12. A word made up of the first letters of a phrase, which is pronounced as if it were a usual word
13. A newly invented word
16. All the words of a language
17. The creation of completely new words
19. A more drastic form of back formation, creating new words by extracting an arbitrary portion of a longer word