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Where does “sociolinguist” come from?

sociolinguist (English) comes from English sociolinguistics, from English linguistics, from English -ics, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.

sociolinguist (English): A person who studies sociolinguistics

Definitions

  1. A person who studies sociolinguistics

Ancestry of “sociolinguist”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsociolinguisticsThe study of social and cultural effects on...
2EnglishlinguisticsThe scientific study of language
3English-icsForms nouns referring to fields of knowledge or...
4English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
5EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
6Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
7Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
8Spanishimagenimage
9Italianimmagineimage; imago
10Latinimāginem—
11Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
12Latinīn-—
13Latinîn—
14Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
15Proto-Italicenin
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →