ellisizationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From ellisize +‎ -ation. A large number of immigrants to the United States were processed at Ellis Island from whose name the term was coined.

名詞

ellisization (uncountable)

1. The alteration by English-speakers of a foreign name, either to facilitate spelling or pronunciation, or by error due to unfamiliarity with, or indifference to the language of origin; or the willful americanization of a name by the immigrant himself.

   My family's name underwent ellisization from "Schmitt" to "Smith" upon my family's emigration from Germany.

参考

• Americanization
• anglicisation / anglicization
• bastardization / bastardisation