peyorasi

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Indonesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Dutch pejoratie. By surface analysis, peyora +‎ -si. Cognates to Afrikaans pejorasie.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /pejorasi/
  • Rhymes: -si, -i
  • Hyphenation: pé‧yo‧ra‧si

Noun[edit]

peyorasi (first-person possessive peyorasiku, second-person possessive peyorasimu, third-person possessive peyorasinya)

  1. (linguistics) The process by which a word acquires a more negative meaning over time; pejoration or pejorativization.

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