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ludling

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ludling
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A linguistic system that alters the forms (but not their meanings) of a source language via simple phonological and/or morphological transformations, such as affixation, reduplication, truncation, phoneme substitution, syllable transposition, etc.

Etymology

Blend of Latin ludus (“play; game”) + a clipping of Latin lingua (“language”). The term was first introduced by Donald Laycock (1972).

Inflected Forms

ludlings (plural)

Derived Forms

ludlingant

Synonyms

language game

Questions

What does ludling mean?
A linguistic system that alters the forms (but not their meanings) of a source language via simple phonological and/or morphological transformations, such as affixation, reduplication, truncation, phoneme substitution, syllable transposition, etc.
Where does ludling come from?
Blend of Latin ludus (“play; game”) + a clipping of Latin lingua (“language”). The term was first introduced by Donald Laycock (1972).

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