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prepidgin

prepidgin noun: an early mixture of languages capable of developing into a pidgin.

Noun

prepidgin (plural prepidgins)

  1. An early mixture of languages capable of developing into a pidgin.
    • An earlier prepidgin or jargon, which is quite variable in structure, may later become a stable pidgin, which has developed its own lexical and grammatical norms.2010, Robert B. Kaplan, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics, page 383

Forms of prepidgin

pluralprepidgins

Origin of prepidgin

From pre- + pidgin.

Questions about prepidgin

What does prepidgin mean?
Prepidgin means an early mixture of languages capable of developing into a pidgin.
What part of speech is prepidgin?
Prepidgin is a noun.
What is the plural of prepidgin?
The plural of prepidgin is prepidgins.

Words near prepidgin in the dictionary

  1. prephosphorylations
  2. prephotographic
  3. prephthisical
  4. prephylogenetic
  5. prepicked
  6. prepidgin
  7. prepidgins
  8. prepilin
  9. prepilin peptidase
  10. prepilin peptidases
  11. prepilins

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