goropism

== English == === Etymology === From Goropius +‎ -ism (suffix forming names of schools of thought, systems, or theories), possibly influenced by French goropiser (“to goropize”), coined by the German philosopher and scientist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) in his work Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain (New Essays on Human Understanding, written 1704, published 1765). Goropius was the name of the Dutch physician and linguist Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519–1573) who hypothesized that the oldest language on earth would be the simplest language, and since Brabantic (a Dutch dialect) had more short words than Greek, Hebrew, or Latin, it was the language spoken by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden from which all other languages derived. The name is from Dutch Gorp (“hamlet in Hilvarenbeek, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands”) (Goropius’ birthplace) + Latin -ius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, and used to Latinize surnames). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡəˈɹəʊpɪzm̩/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɡəˈɹoʊpɪz(ə)m/ Hyphenation: go‧rop‧i‧sm === Noun === goropism (usually uncountable, plural goropisms) (linguistics) A hypothesis, similar to the one originally propounded by Goropius which is now discredited, that some attested or modern language such as Dutch, Hebrew, or Turkish was the original language of human beings. An absurd etymology proposed as part of such a hypothesis. ==== Hypernyms ==== folk etymology ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === Johannes Goropius Becanus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia