Word.ws English Dictionary

koinêization

koinêization is the alternative spelling of koinëisation.

Meaning of koinëisation

Noun

koinëisation (usually uncountable, plural koinëisations)

  1. (usually) The process whereby a lect develops into a koine, or an instance of this.
    • This is a reasonable interpretation of Hull (1968, 1974). This author later made it clear that the koinêization process may have continued during the early period of colonization (Hull 1994).1994?, Yves-Charles Morin, “The Origin and Development of the Pronunciation of French in Québec” in The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages: Proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask...

Forms of koinêization

pluralkoinêizations

Questions about koinêization

What is koinêization the alternative spelling of?
Koinêization is the alternative spelling of koinëisation.

Words near koinêization in the dictionary

  1. koinéization
  2. koinéizations
  3. koinés
  4. koinêisation
  5. koinêisations
  6. koinêization
  7. koinêizations
  8. koinëisation
  9. koinëisations
  10. koinëization
  11. koinëizations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: koinêization (page history and authors); koinëisation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “koinêization.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/koin%C3%AAization. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.