Etymograph

English

hyperforeign

First use appears c.

Formed from hyper- + foreign

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

English hyper-

Vulgar Latin *forānus ‘outsider’

Old French forain

Middle English foreyn

English foreign

The story

First use appears c. 1933 as hyper-foreign, and c. 1983 as hyperforeign.

Today it means

adj Resulting from the misapplication of foreign reading rules, such as dropping the ‘t’ in claret.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / hyperforeign