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LEXICOSTATISTICS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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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