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Where does “minilanguage” come from?

minilanguage (English) comes from English language, from Middle English langage, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin linguaticum, from Latin lingua, from Latin -ula, from Proto-Indo-European -tlom, from Proto-Indo-European -trom — Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...

minilanguage (English): A relatively small and simple domain-specific...

Definitions

  1. A relatively small and simple domain-specific...

Ancestry of “minilanguage”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlanguageA body of words, and set of methods of combining...
2Middle Englishlangagelanguage, tongue, speech; dialect, idiom, local...
3Old Frenchlanguagelanguage
4Vulgar Latinlinguaticumlanguage
5Latinlinguatongue; a speech; an utterance or expression
6Latin-ularegō + API → rēgula; tegō + API → tēgula;...
7Proto-Indo-European-tlomAlternative form of *-trom
8Proto-Indo-European-tromForms nouns denoting a tool or instrument
9Proto-Indo-European-tḗrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tḗr →