lish
adjEtymology Unknown. Perhaps a variant of leash (“a piece of rope, thread, etc.”), referring to its pliability.
lish
nounEtymology Apheresis of English.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A hybrid variety of English having a name that is derived from a portmanteau of the name of one language and the word English, such as Chinglish (Chinese + English), Spanglish (Spanish + English), Taglish (Tagalog + English), etc.
- Similarly, little attention, if any, has been paid to the etymology of “lishes”, including questions of how the terms have been formed from their two base forms, or if the terms were originally formed in English or other languages.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 4: