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Elizabethan English en · PROPN
Pronunciation
Meanings
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The dialect of English spoken during the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
Blends, also known as portmanteau words, are not an original part of English. That is, none occur in Old or Middle English, nor even in Elizabethan English, with the earliest known example being the rare and now obsolete term tomaxe, a blend of tomahawk and axe.
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10:
Holonyms
Early Modern English
Relateds
Middle English · Modern English · Old English