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prepidgin

noun

Etymology

From pre- + pidgin.

  1. derived from baixo
  2. derived from ocupação
  3. borrowed from פִּדְיוֹן — “exchange; trade; redemption”
  4. derived from business
  5. prefixed as prepidgin — “pre + pidgin”

Definitions

  1. An early mixture of languages capable of developing into a pidgin.

    • An earlier prepidgin or jargon, which is quite variable in structure, may later become a stable pidgin, which has developed its own lexical and grammatical norms.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for prepidgin. 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