prepidgin

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ pidgin

Noun

prepidgin (plural prepidgins)

1. (linguistics) An early mixture of languages capable of developing into a pidgin.
   • 2010, Robert B. Kaplan, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics, page 383:

     An earlier prepidgin or jargon, which is quite variable in structure, may later become a stable pidgin, which has developed its own lexical and grammatical norms.

Anagrams

• re-dipping, redipping