koine

• koiné

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοινή (koinḗ), feminine form of κοινός (koinós, “common, general”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɪniː/, /ˈkɔɪneɪ/

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koine (plural koines or koinai)

1. A lingua franca.

   Synonym: interlanguage

   • 2004, Steven Roger Fischer, A History of Language, Reaktion Books, page 178:

     If a dominant language was spoken in the area of such trade routes, then this dominant language became the ‘interlanguage’, as it is called. Such an interlanguage, or koiné, is a simplified dialect with which speakers of two or more quite different dialects communicate with one another.

   • 2013, J. E. Wansborough, Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean, Routledge, page 153:

     Now, another term for that product is koine, which, however, I have regularly […] employed in reference to the infrastructure (procedural, juridical, formal, cultural) that enables and informs composition of a lingua franca. […] In linguistic scholarship koine mostly (!) refers to a standard language expanded by input from several dialectal sources with concomitant levelling of morphological and syntactic differences and adoption of a general and possibly restricted lexicon.

2. A regional language that becomes standard over time.

• koinëisation (linguistics)

• koiné language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Kenio-, eikon, enoki

From Proto-Cariban *koine; compare Apalaí kokonie, Trió kokonje.

• (Venezuela) IPA^(key): [koɲɲe]
• (West Suriname) IPA^(key): [kojʝe]
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [kojɲe]

koine

1. by evening or afternoon, in the afternoon

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 297
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “koye”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 230; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 224
• Yamada, Racquel-María (2010) “koije”, in Speech community-based documentation, description, and revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume‎, University of Oregon, page 750

koine m (definite singular koineen, indefinite plural koineer, definite plural koineene)

1. alternative spelling of koiné

koine m (definite singular koineen, indefinite plural koinear, definite plural koineane)

1. alternative spelling of koiné

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κοινή (koinḗ).

• IPA^(key): /kɔˈi.nɛ/

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• Rhymes: -inɛ
• Syllabification: ko‧i‧ne

koine n (indeclinable)

1. (historical) Koine Greek (common supra-regional form of Greek spoken and written during the Hellenistic period, the Roman Empire, and the early Byzantine Empire)
2. (linguistics) koine (regional language that becomes standard over time)

• koine in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• koine in PWN's encyclopedia

• konie

koine f or m (plural koines)

1. Alternative form of koiné

Borrowed from French koiné.

koine f (uncountable)

1. koine, lingua franca

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