relexify

relexify
relexification, n.
/ree lek"seuh fuy'/, v.t., relexified, relexifying. Ling.
to replace the vocabulary of (a language, esp. a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
[1960-65; RE- + LEXI(CON) + -FY]

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