You know "escalate" came from "escalator" and not the other way around?

Jun. 4th, 2010 08:33 pm
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Escalate is a backformation of escalator.

This is just a segue for an interesting question that kept me up all night: What is the verb form of backformation? Is it backform or backformate?
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