Characteristics of 'loan word root + る' verbs

Question

This question follows on from these others:

• What are the principles behind turning foreign language words into verbs?
• Why are there very few non-する gairaigo verbs in Japanese?
• Are there words which consist of katakana and hiragana letters together?
• Are there nouns that can function as another part of speech?

I am trying to catalog the specific verb type loan word root + る in terms of meaning, inflection patterns, pitch-accent characteristics, etc. Hopefully this will identify any clear patterns and/or irregularities. So far, I have come up with the following list (see below).

Please point out any any errors you see - I will amend and update the list accordingly.
Also, feel free to add any more that you know.

Answer 1

I went on a dictionary dive through Daijirin. Here are some additional ones:

• ガスる - (from "gas") to get foggy (e.g. of a mountain in the distance) - [2]
• サチる - to saturate - [2]
• サマる - to summarize - [2]
• タクる - to take a taxi - [2]
• タピる - to drink a tapioca/boba drink - [2]
• ダビる - to dub with audio - [2]
• ダフる - to duff (British golf slang for hitting the ground behind the ball, thus reducing the power of the shot) - [2]
• チキる - to act chicken / act weak or scared - [2]
• デコる - to decorate gaudishly - [2]
• デモる - to demonstrate (e.g. as part of a rights movement) - [2]
• ディスる - to diss (i.e. to speak disrespectfully about / insult someone) - [2]
• ネガる - to become negative - [2]
• ネグる - to neglect to do / to ignore - [2]
• ネゴる - to negotiate - [2]
• バトる - to fight / to battle - [2]
• パニクる - to panic - [3]
• パロる - to parody - [2]
• ヒスる - to have a fit of hysterics - [2]
• ビニる - to go to the convenience store - [2]
• ラグる - to lag - [2]
• リヌる - (from "renew") to renovate a web page - [2]
• リムる - (from "remove") to unfollow online - [2]
• レボる - (from "revolution") to reform one's own actions and habits - [2]
• ロム(ROM)る - (from "ROM" (Read-Only Member), i.e. a member who reads but doesn't post) to read online posts without posting anything oneself (often used in the sense of "shut up", e.g. ロムれ) - [2?]

There are probably a lot more that don't make it into the dictionaries. オナる comes to mind. If there's a word that's popular and has a two-syllable abbreviation, it's probably likely that someone, somewhere has attached る to it. As for the pitch accent, all of these fit the pattern described so far (downstep directly before る).

Answer 2

Some general observations of the patterns visible so far.

• The pitch accent is consistent, with a downstep just before the last mora.
• A subset of these terms re-analyze the final //l// in English as verb-ending る:
  • ググる
  • ダブる
  • トラブる
• ハモる is an almost-pun, or a kind of missing apophone for the はまる・はめる verb pair "to fit", considering that, when harmonizing, the various sounds must fit together nicely.
• Two end in バる, a common enough suffixing element when spelled 張る.
• (Almost certainly accidental resemblance): Several of these almost come across as rare or dialectal English rendered in katakana -- the -le suffix is a common frequentative element in English. I found that buzzle does seem to be an actual word, and although I cannot find evidence of buggle other than the band name, it almost works as a native English term.
• A couple others appear to play on other terms or other forms that end in リ (ファボリ[ート], メモリ) and re-analyze that as the 連用形, thus back-constructing the plain form of the verb ending in る.
• One seems to just omit an otherwise-doubled mid-word す (ミスする → ミスる), with the attendant change of the る from the vanishing サ変 ending to 五段. バズる could be viewed as a similar instance.

There's lots of fun word play going on with these. I'm curious if an expanded list might find additional examples of the above patterns.

Answer 3

Not coming from loan words, but a related category of such verbs come from onomatopoeia, especially those having the ABABする pattern. For example:

• ボコボコ(する) → ボコる (to beat the hell out of)
• ニコニコ(する) → ニコる (to smile; only seen on ニコニコ動画 so far)
• パコパコ(する) → パコる (to have sex)
• ドキドキ(する) → ドキった (have been surprised)

The last one could be actually coming directly from ドキっと(した); I don’t think I’ve ever seen the infinitive form ドキる.