Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A competition [of the activity denoted by the word it combines with], especially a final, tiebreaker, or repechage within a broader tournament.
Back-formation from playoff, a deverbal, as the archetype.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "back-form",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "playoff"
},
"expansion": "Back-formation from playoff"
}
],
"links": [
[
"playoff",
"playoff#English"
],
[
"deverbal",
"deverbal#Noun"
],
[
"archetype",
"archetype#Noun"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "suffix",
"glosses": [
"A competition [of the activity denoted by the word it combines with], especially a final, tiebreaker, or repechage within a broader tournament."
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
],
"recordId": "1624ba42c337db56de4c233854f949575caaaa2e1972c2bb2a72b92eeb5ba24a",
"rawRecordSha256": "e8d4fa45170ab591407b21ecb9f93c2e817459b586f29b9d0b9895746e36bec1",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 614743
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}