peyorasi
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Dutch pejoratie. By surface analysis, peyora + -si. Cognates to Afrikaans pejorasie.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
peyorasi (first-person possessive peyorasiku, second-person possessive peyorasimu, third-person possessive peyorasinya)
- (linguistics) The process by which a word acquires a more negative meaning over time; pejoration or pejorativization.
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Further reading edit
- “peyorasi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.