Esperantization

English

Etymology

Esperanto +‎ -ization

Noun

Esperantization (uncountable)

1. the act or process of Esperantizing.
   • 1907, Troisième Congrès Universel d'Esperanto, Cambridge, 9-17 août 1907: extraits d'articles de divers journaux anglais (texte anglais)., page 31:

     Dr. Cunningham amusingly presented the senilities of an old type of English judge, Sam Weller appeared as an Esperantist with an enormous green star, and succeeded well with his Esperantization of the Wellerian temperament.

   • 1923, British Esperantist:

     […] by Zamenhof (with the exception of the second volume of Fabeloj de Andersen and La Biblio), collected with microsopic and almost incredible thoroughness, and preceded by a brilliant monograph on the Esperantization of proper names.

   • 1969, Harry Warner, All our yesterdays: an informal history of science fiction fandom in the forties:

     She promptly became known as Morojo, an Esperantization of her initials.