Etymology

decreolize

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Today it means: To modify a creole language by removing creole elements and replacing them with standard language forms. Full definition →

English creolize ← French créole ← Spanish criollo
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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. Portuguesecrioulo
  8. Spanishcriollo
  9. Frenchcréole
  10. EnglishCreole
  11. Englishcreole
  12. Englishcreolize
  13. English todaydecreolize

From de- + creolize.

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