Where does “linguistic” come from?
Linguistic derives from German Linguistik, formed with the German suffix -isch from Ancient Greek -ικός, itself from Proto-Indo-European -kos, an adjectival suffix ultimately rooted in Proto-Indo-European dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.
linguistic (English): Of or relating to language; Of or relating to...
Definitions
- Of or relating to language; Of or relating to...
Ancestry of “linguistic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | linguistisch | linguistic |
| 2 | German | Linguistik | linguistics |
| 3 | English | linguistics | The scientific study of language |
| 4 | English | -ics | Forms nouns referring to fields of knowledge or... |
| 5 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 6 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 7 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 8 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 9 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 10 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 11 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 12 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 13 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 14 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 15 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 16 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “linguistic”
- linguistically
- sociolinguistic
- metalinguistic
- psycholinguistic
- ethnolinguistic
- nonlinguistic
- crosslinguistic
- paralinguistic
- prelinguistic
- extralinguistic
- neurolinguistic
- crosslinguistically
- interlinguistic
- ethnolinguistically
- intralinguistic
- translinguistic
- geolinguistic
- metalinguistically
- multilinguistic
- biolinguistic
- psycholinguistically
- protolinguistic
- monolinguistic
- microlinguistic