Esperantization

English

Etymology

From Esperanto +‎ -ization.

Noun

Esperantization (usually uncountable, plural Esperantizations)

  1. The process or result of Esperantizing.
    • 1907, Troisième Congrès Universel d'Esperanto, Cambridge, 9-17 août 1907: extraits d'articles de divers journaux anglais (texte anglais)., page 31:
      Dr. Cunningham amusingly presented the senilities of an old type of English judge, Sam Weller appeared as an Esperantist with an enormous green star, and succeeded well with his Esperantization of the Wellerian temperament.
    • 1923, British Esperantist:
      […] by Zamenhof (with the exception of the second volume of Fabeloj de Andersen and La Biblio), collected with microsopic and almost incredible thoroughness, and preceded by a brilliant monograph on the Esperantization of proper names.
    • 1969, Harry Warner, All our yesterdays: an informal history of science fiction fandom in the forties:
      She promptly became known as Morojo, an Esperantization of her initials.
    • 2016, Ulrich Lins, “Socialism and International Language” (chapter 7), in Humphrey Tonkin, transl., Dangerous Language — Esperanto Under Hitler and Stalin, Palgrave Macmillan UK, →ISBN, page 265:
      The latter ideas seemed to lose viability after Skrypnyk’s public warning against the ‘Esperantization’ of Ukraine
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