autotranslation
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auto- + translation
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autotranslation (countable and uncountable, plural autotranslations)
- Translation of a work into another language by its original author.
- 2006, Neil Cornwell, The absurd in literature, page 247:
- Beckett produced autotranslations of the first two works, but gave up on Worstward Ho, deeming it 'untranslatable'...