Reconstruction

Noun

1. The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.
2. A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
3. The act of restoring something to an earlier state.

   "The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year."

4. The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome.

   "The detective's reconstruction of what happened that night is dubious."

5. A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.