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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
- (linguistics) The process by which a word acquires a more negative meaning over time; pejoration or pejorativization.
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