Where does “metalinguisticamente” come from?
metalinguisticamente (Italian) comes from Italian metalinguistico, from Portuguese linguístico, from Portuguese linguista, from Portuguese língua, from Old Portuguese lingua, from Latin lingua, from Latin -ula, from Proto-Indo-European -tlom — Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
metalinguisticamente (Italian): metalinguistically
Ancestry of “metalinguisticamente”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | metalinguistico | metalinguistic |
| 2 | Portuguese | linguístico | linguistic |
| 3 | Portuguese | linguista | linguist |
| 4 | Portuguese | língua | tongue; language |
| 5 | Old Portuguese | lingua | — |
| 6 | Latin | lingua | tongue; a speech; an utterance or expression |
| 7 | Latin | -ula | regō + API → rēgula; tegō + API → tēgula;... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tlom | Alternative form of *-trom |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |