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Where does “sociolinguistic” come from?

Sociolinguistic derives from English linguistic combined with socius from Latin, which traces through Latin sequor and Ancient Greek -ικός back to Proto-Indo-European -kos and dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

sociolinguistic (English): Pertaining to sociolinguistics

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to sociolinguistics

Ancestry of “sociolinguistic”, 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 “sociolinguistic”

  • macrosociolinguistic
  • microsociolinguistic
  • nonsociolinguistic
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