peyorasi

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Related terms

• peyoratif

 

Further reading

• “peyorasi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.