Where does “nonlinguistic” come from?
Nonlinguistic derives from English linguistic, which comes from Latin nōna and Latin nōnus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots meaning "nine."
nonlinguistic (English): Not linguistic
Definitions
- Not linguistic
Ancestry of “nonlinguistic”, step by step
nonlinguistic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English linguistic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | linguistic | Of or relating to language; Of or relating to... |
| 2 | German | linguistisch | linguistic |
| 3 | German | Linguistik | linguistics |
| 4 | English | linguistics | The scientific study of language |
| 5 | English | -ics | Forms nouns referring to fields of knowledge or... |
| 6 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 7 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 8 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 9 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 10 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 11 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 12 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 13 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 14 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 15 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 16 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 17 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |