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creolize

verb
/ˈkɹiːəlaɪz/

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 English creolize From creole + -ize.

  1. derived from -isen English -ize English creolize From creole + -ize
  2. derived from -iserbor
  3. derived from -izōder
  4. derived from criollo French créolebor
  5. derived from crioulobor

Definitions

  1. To cause a pidgin language rapidly expanding in vocabulary and grammatical rules to…

    To cause a pidgin language rapidly expanding in vocabulary and grammatical rules to become ultimately a creole.

  2. To render an imported object 'localised'

    To render an imported object 'localised'; to produce variations which give an object a regional flavour.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for creolize. 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