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Where does “lingua” come from?

lingua (Latin) comes 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...

lingua (Latin): tongue; a speech; an utterance or expression

Definitions

  1. tongue; a speech; an utterance or expression

Ancestry of “lingua”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-ularegō + API → rēgula; tegō + API → tēgula;...
2Proto-Indo-European-tlomAlternative form of *-trom
3Proto-Indo-European-tromForms nouns denoting a tool or instrument
4Proto-Indo-European-tḗrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...

Words derived from “lingua”

  • language
  • linguistic
  • linguistics
  • linguistically
  • linguist
  • multilingual
  • lingua
  • lingual
  • monolingual
  • lingo
  • sociolinguistic
  • multilingualism
  • metalinguistic
  • sociolinguistics
  • interlanguage
  • psycholinguistic
  • metalanguage
  • ethnolinguistic
  • nonlinguistic
  • crosslinguistic
  • psycholinguistics
  • trilingual
  • paralinguistic
  • prelinguistic
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