новомова
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Ukrainian
Etymology
нови́й (novýj) + -о- (-o-) + мо́ва (móva), literally “neolanguage”; calque of English Newspeak, from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Pronunciation
Noun
новомо́ва • (novomóva) f inan (genitive новомо́ви, uncountable)
- Newspeak (from George Orwell's "1984")
- (figuratively) similar language practice of totalitarian regimes
Declension
Declension of новомо́ва (inan sg-only hard fem-form accent-a)
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 (in Ukrainian)