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Finnish
Etymology
kontin + kieli, after kontti, the word used in this word game, which in turn is possibly from English cant with folk-etymological association with kontti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkontinˌkie̯li/,
- Rhymes: -ieli
- Syllabification(key): kon‧tin‧kie‧li
Noun
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hevonen (“horse”) → hevonenkontti (intermediate form) → kovonenhentti (kontinkieli form)
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kontinkieli
- A wordplay resembling pig Latin, constructed in two phases so that in the first phase the word kontti is thought to be added after each word in a sentence and then the first one or two letters in the original word are interchanged with the letters ko in kontti.
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