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colonial lag

noun

Definitions

  1. The retention of certain lexical items in a colonial variety of a language which have…

    The retention of certain lexical items in a colonial variety of a language which have fallen into disuse in the original language.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for colonial lag. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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