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Where does “psycholinguistic” come from?

Psycholinguistic combines Ancient Greek ψυχή (psychḗ, "soul" or "mind") and -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix) through Proto-Indo-European -kos with linguis- from Latin lingua.

psycholinguistic (English): Pertaining to psycholinguistics

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to psycholinguistics

Ancestry of “psycholinguistic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlinguisticOf or relating to language; Of or relating to...
2Germanlinguistischlinguistic
3GermanLinguistiklinguistics
4EnglishlinguisticsThe scientific study of language
5English-icsForms nouns referring to fields of knowledge or...
6English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
7EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
8Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
9Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
10Spanishimagenimage
11Italianimmagineimage; imago
12Latinimāginem—
13Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
14Latinīn-—
15Latinîn—
16Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
17Proto-Italicenin
18Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “psycholinguistic”

  • psycholinguistically
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