Where does “linguist” come from?
Linguist comes from English -ist, Latin -ista, and Proto-Indo-European -yéti, a suffix forming agent nouns from verbal roots denoting one who performs an action.
linguist (English): One who studies linguistics; A person skilled in...
Definitions
- One who studies linguistics; A person skilled in...
Ancestry of “linguist”, step by step
Words derived from “linguist”
- linguistic
- linguistics
- linguistically
- sociolinguistic
- metalinguistic
- sociolinguistics
- psycholinguistic
- ethnolinguistic
- nonlinguistic
- crosslinguistic
- psycholinguistics
- paralinguistic
- prelinguistic
- extralinguistic
- neurolinguistic
- crosslinguistically
- neurolinguistics
- sociolinguist
- interlinguistic
- ethnolinguistically
- intralinguistic
- psycholinguist
- translinguistic
- geolinguistic