новомова

Ukrainian

Etymology

нови́й (novýj) +‎ -о- (-o-) +‎ мо́ва (móva), literally “neolanguage”; calque of English Newspeak, from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nɔwɔˈmɔʋɐ]

Noun

новомо́ва • (novomóva) f inan (genitive новомо́ви, uncountable)

1. Newspeak (from George Orwell's "1984")
2. (figuratively) similar language practice of totalitarian regimes

Declension

Declension of новомо́ва (inan sg-only hard fem-form accent-a)

	singular
nominative	новомо́ва novomóva
genitive	новомо́ви novomóvy
dative	новомо́ві novomóvi
accusative	новомо́ву novomóvu
instrumental	новомо́вою novomóvoju
locative	новомо́ві novomóvi
vocative	новомо́во novomóvo

Further reading

• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2019), “новомо́ва”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 10 (на́ступ – о́бміль), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
• “новомо́ва”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)