kontinkieli

Finnish

noun
Definitions
  • A wordplay resembling pig Latin. Kontinkieli is 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. As an example hevonen (horse) -> hevonen-kontti (intermediate form) -> kovonen-hentti (kontinkieli-form).

Etymology

Com from Finnish kontti (container, knapsack) + Finnish kieli (language, tongue, string, with languages, of language, of the tongue, of a tongue).

Origin

Finnish

kieli

Gloss

language, tongue, string, with languages, of language, of the tongue, of a tongue

Concept
Semantic Field

Speech and language

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

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