The story
- French · borrowed fromverlan
- English todayverlan
From French verlan, itself a verlan of à l'envers (“upside down or back to front”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
verlan
Today it means: A type of backslang used in French, in which the order of the syllables or sounds of words is changed. Full definition →
French verlan