pidginizev.
/ˈpɪdʒᵻnʌɪz/, /ˈpɪdʒn̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈpɪdʒᵻnˌaɪz/ Linguistics.
transitive. To produce a simplified, pidgin, or hybrid form of (a language). Usually in passive. Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > a language > [verb (transitive)] > create creole or pidgin
pidginize1921
creolize1958
1921 H. E. Palmer Princ. Lang.-study iii. 57 He will tend to insinuate English sounds, English forms, and English thoughts into the new language, which will therefore become pidginized.
1937 J. R. Firth Tongues of Men vi. 80 If English were to be pidginized the simplification of pronunciation would have to be based on those differences between sounds which most men could hear..without expert tuition.
1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. iii. 135 Theoretically, any language can be pidginized, although historically not all have been.
1991 Eng. Today July 14/2 Aventures and figures..were not yet ‘really’ English—and were hardly plain... They were..‘pidginized’ into English by bilingual people like Chaucer himself.
2008 S. de Silva Jayasuriya Portuguese in East viii. 191 Over the centuries and across the globe, successive waves of invasion or trade, forced languages to pidginise and creolise.
Derivatives
ˈpidginized adj.
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the mind > language > a language > [adjective] > creole or mixed
mongrel1610
Creole1726
nativized1933
pidginized1938
1938 Social Forces 17 107/2 Both will be content with an imperfect approximation to one of the languages: a debased or pidginized or jargonized form.
1992 Eng. Today Jan. 3/1 The pidginized English of Cameroon..has been a lingua franca in the country for over one hundred years.
2008 S. de Silva Jayasuriya Portuguese in East viii. 191 Portuguese..was used in pidginised or creolised forms by the Lusitanians and other Europeans who displaced them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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