Etymology

debabelization

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Today it means: The situation where a people or region that formerly spoke multiple languages or dialects comes to speak a single unified language or dialect. Full definition →

English babelization ← Latin Babel ← Biblical Hebrew בָּבֶל (bāḇel)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Englishde-
  7. Akkadian𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābilim)
  8. Biblical Hebrewבָּבֶל (bāḇel)
  9. LatinBabel
  10. EnglishBabel
  11. Englishbabelization
  12. English todaydebabelization

From de- + babelization.

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