Where does “trabalinguas” come from?
trabalinguas (Galician) comes from Galician lingua, from Old Portuguese lingua, from Latin lingua, from Latin -ula, from Proto-Indo-European -tlom, from Proto-Indo-European -trom, from Proto-Indo-European -tḗr — Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
trabalinguas (Galician): tongue-twister a phrase that is deliberately designed to be difficult to say correctly, usually because of varying combinations of similar phonemes
Definitions
- tongue-twister a phrase that is deliberately designed to be difficult to say correctly, usually because of varying combinations of similar phonemes
Ancestry of “trabalinguas”, step by step
trabalinguas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Galician lingua
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galician | lingua | tongue; language |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | lingua | — |
| 3 | Latin | lingua | tongue; a speech; an utterance or expression |
| 4 | Latin | -ula | regō + API → rēgula; tegō + API → tēgula;... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tlom | Alternative form of *-trom |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |