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, the division into morphemes in Spanish is tamal-es whereas English-speakers took it to be tamale-s ). English has both frijol and frijole , the latter of which may be explained in the same way: English-speakers borrowed Spanish plural frijoles (whose singular is frijol ), from which they back-formed a new singular, frijole (again, the morpheme division in Spanish is frijol-es whereas certain English-speakers took it to be frijole-s ). English frijol , on the other hand, is derived straightforwardly from the Spanish singular.
In fact, the amount of back-formed onomatopoeia devoted to sounds of human manufacture is astounding.
Again and again one hears local and national broadcasters according an extra syllable to past participles as if the words were back-formed from adverbs, e.g., allegèd, assurèd, composèd, markèd, suffusèd, supposèd.
An English noun which is definitely back-formed from a plural is blints (often misspelled “blintz”).
Peevish , from which the noun and verb peeve appear to have been back-formed, has been used since the 14th century with a wide variety of senses, including `childish, silly, wayward, thoughtless, froward, uncouth, perverse' (which some think is the source), and even `witty.