Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A jargon systematically formed by the transposition of the initial consonant to the end of the word and the suffixation of an additional syllable, as igpay atinlay for pig Latin.
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- noun A type of
wordplay in which (English) words are altered by moving the leadingphonetic of a word to the end and appending -ay - however, if the word begins with a vowel then "-way" is suffixed with no leading phonetic change.
Etymologies
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From pig
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TankHughes commented on the word pig Latin
In "Games of Washington Children" on the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/jstor-658879/658879#page/n33/mode/2up), there is a brief mention of dog Latin (adding -us to the end of most words) and cat Latin (adding -liga to the end of words ending in a vowel, and -aliga,-iliga, -oliga to words ending in consonants).
October 22, 2015