nativization
/ˌneɪtɪvʌɪˈzeɪʃn/(also nativisation)
noun
1The action, process, or policy of making something native.
2 Linguistics. The process of adapting a loan word to the phonetic structure of the native language; the process of developing a pidgin language into a creole.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Man: a monthly record of anthropological science. From nativize + -ation.
- Plautus, Titus Maccius
- plav
- play
- playa
- playability
- playable
- play about (or around)
- play-act
- play-action pass
- play-actor
- play-actress
- playa-hata
- playa-hater
- playa lake
- play a let
- play a lone hand
- play along
- play a (or one's) hunch
- play a part
- play a trick (or joke) on
- play away
- playback
- playback singer
- play ball
- playbill