creolization

noun
/ˌkɹiː.əʊ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/UK

Etymology

Etymology tree Portuguese crioulobor. Spanish criollo French créolebor. English Creole English creole Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ization English creolization From creole + -ization.

  1. derived from -ationbor
  2. derived from -iserbor
  3. derived from -izōder
  4. derived from crioulobor

Definitions

  1. the process of a pidgin rapidly expanding its vocabulary and grammatical rules,…

    the process of a pidgin rapidly expanding its vocabulary and grammatical rules, ultimately becoming a creole.

  2. of Indo-Trinidadians, the process of assimilation into the dominant Creole culture.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA