Where does “decreolize” come from?
decreolize (English) comes from English creolize, from English Creole, from French créole, from Spanish criollo, from Portuguese crioulo, from Portuguese cria, from Portuguese criar, from Old Portuguese criar — army.
decreolize (English): To modify a language by converting creole...
Definitions
- To modify a language by converting creole...
Ancestry of “decreolize”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | creolize | To cause a pidgin language rapidly expanding in... |
| 2 | English | Creole | A descendant of white European settlers who is... |
| 3 | French | créole | Creole; creole language |
| 4 | Spanish | criollo | creole; unmixed European-descended Latin... |
| 5 | Portuguese | crioulo | criollo; a slave born at the house of his master;... |
| 6 | Portuguese | cria | young; offspring; kid; young'un; someone who is... |
| 7 | Portuguese | criar | to create, to put into existence; to invent; to... |
| 8 | Old Portuguese | criar | to raise |
| 9 | Latin | creō | to create, to give existence to, to form, to make, to produce, to originate out of other materials or out of nihility (transitively) |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |