Etymology

creolize

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Today it means: To cause a pidgin language rapidly expanding in vocabulary and grammatical rules to become ultimately a creole. Full definition →

English creole ← French créole ← Spanish criollo
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The story

  1. Portuguesecrioulo
  2. Spanishcriollo
  3. Frenchcréole
  4. EnglishCreole
  5. Englishcreole
  6. English todaycreolize

From creole + -ize.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.