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sesquilingualism

noun

Etymology

From sesquilingual + -ism.

  1. learned borrowing from linguālis
  2. formed as sesquilingual — “sesqui- + lingual”
  3. suffixed as sesquilingualism — “sesquilingual + ism”

Definitions

  1. The condition of being sesquilingual

    The condition of being sesquilingual; the ability to speak one language fluently, and a second language only to a limited extent.

    • The transitional zone can be regarded as the dialect boundary, where the two different dialects meet but there is no significant gap in mutual intelligibility due to the sesquilingualism of the native speakers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sesquilingualism. 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