Esperantization

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noun

The process or result of Esperantizing.

Scrabble 26

Meanings

nounEsperantization (usually uncountable, plural Esperantizations)

plural Esperantizations

  1. uncountableusuallyThe process or result of Esperantizing.

    She promptly became known as Morojo, an Esperantization of her initials.

    1969, Harry Warner, All our yesterdays: an informal history of science fiction fandom in the forties
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    Dr. Cunningham amusingly presented the senilities of an old type of English judge, Sam Weller appeared as an Esperantist with an enormous green star, and succeeded well with his Esperantization of the Wellerian temperament.

    1907, Troisième Congrès Universel d'Esperanto, Cambridge, 9-17 août 1907: extraits d'articles de divers journaux anglais (texte anglais)., page 31

    […] by Zamenhof (with the exception of the second volume of Fabeloj de Andersen and La Biblio), collected with microsopic and almost incredible thoroughness, and preceded by a brilliant monograph on the Esperantization of proper names.

    1923, British Esperantist

    The latter ideas seemed to lose viability after Skrypnyk’s public warning against the ‘Esperantization’ of Ukraine

    2016, Ulrich Lins, “Socialism and International Language” (chapter 7), in Humphrey Tonkin, transl., Dangerous Language — Esperanto Under Hitler and Stalin, Palgrave Macmillan UK, →ISBN, page 265

Origin

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