混こん合ごう語ご

noun

mixed language; hybrid language; pidgin

Linguistics term for a language that blends elements from two or more source languages, including pidgins and creoles.

• 混こん合ごう語ごの研けん究きゅうは言げん語ご接せっ触しょくの理り解かいに役やく立だつ。

  The study of mixed languages helps us understand language contact.

noun

word formed via contamination

In historical linguistics, a word created by blending two similar words, e.g., through folk etymology or analogical influence.

• この混こん合ごう語ごは二ふたつの古ふるい語ご形けいが混まざってできたと考かんがえられている。

  This contaminated word is thought to have arisen from the blending of two older forms.